TeamLab Planets. Take off your shoes and free your senses
- Anna Paula Maranhão
- 17 de mar. de 2019
- 3 min de leitura
Atualizado: 10 de out. de 2024
In Tokyo, an exhibition of digital art induces immersion in an atmosphere of sensations and reflections on the world today.
Imagine that you are in a hallway almost without light and your feet are submerged. You are walking slowly, listening to soft music and feeling the freshness of a forest in the air… Thus, with your stimulated senses, mainly touch, sight and smell, TeamLab Planets Tokyo receives you in its art installation. Well, I'm going to write to you my impressions of this technological giant artwork, which has stuck in my memory in the best way.
The digital art exhibition is so well thought out that it delivers an excellent experience since from the moment that the advertising reaches the audience (in the center of the target) until the end of the show itself. The organization of the event and the artistic proposal are amazing! Watch the promo video:
When I watched this video for the first time, I felt an itch! It made me soon decide to go to the exhibition. The website of the event is also spectacular because it alludes to the sensorial and technological climate of the TeamLab's work. Check out: TeamLab Planets Tokyo.
ORGANIZATION IN PERFECT HARMONY WITH THE ART
The organization of the exposition is clever as well. Starting with the purchase process of the e-ticket. The virtual box office allows scheduling of the session, which it guarantees the mega-disputed ticket and avoids large queues.
The harmony remains exemplary on the spot. I was very well received by the attendants and my visit started punctually at the time that I chose by the website. Before the exposition begins, visitors should watch a cordial and creative video with important notices. For instance, warns about some rooms have water on the floor (as a pool) and, therefore, shoes should be removed, pants raised to the knees and cell phones should be protected; in addition, some rooms have mirrors on the floor and underwear, under the dresses, could be reflected.
As I said, the event is very well prepared. There are safe lockers available for storing shoes and belongings, clean shorts to borrow for women wearing dresses (I guaranteed mine), and a plastic protector not to soak the phones, which could be hanging from the neck. Consequently, without shoes and wearing my borrowed shorts, I became immersed in the great space of art.
IMMERSED IN TECHNOLOGY AND ART
At TeamLab Planets Tokyo, all facilities work with the senses. There are smells, light songs that set the environment, mirrors and hypnotizing projections. As we walk barefoot, we feel different textures on the floor, for example, there is leather flooring, water, ice mirror, rougher fabrics and even soft floors that sink. All this trigger a mixture of intense sensations and a certain euphoria.
HUMANS, NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY
It is part of TeamLab Planets' artistic proposal to explore the current connection between humans, nature and technology, in an intrinsic, collaborative, and non-returnable way. What I saw in the exhibition was the ultimate expression of this current world.
The exhibition also draws attention to another concept: visitors are active elements in the artistic proposal by interacting with the work, including via cell phones. For instance, I played with a carp that was being projected in the water by lights, also with the infinite reflection of the mirrors and with a ball. I made a lot of art.
The Planets is part of a larger project called TeamLab and all the assemblies were developed by an "interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists" with artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects.
The mirror photo is from The Infinite Crystal Universe installation. When I entered that room, I lost the air and I dropped a huge "wooow, it seems that we are inside the Internet". There is a labyrinth of countless LED lights that change color and intensity, play a shivering music and have mirrors on all sides, which they cause the effect of an infinite space. The work expresses the "universe through accumulated points of light that spread infinitely in all directions," according to the original concept. Check here.
EMOTIONS CREATE MEMORIES
Good experiences awaken emotions that are recorded in our beautiful limbic system in the brain. In my case, the TeamLab Planets Tokyo has penetrated and will be unforgettable, because it has given me an intense and extremely positive experience. I really felt the nature, even though it was projected by the artifice of technology. A beautiful metaphor of today's life and a very true art form, in which I felt integrated!
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