Image: Mori Building Digital Art Museum: EPSON teamLab Borderless, Kyoto
teamLab Planets TOKYO in Toyosu, Tokyo, is presenting its large-scale immersive digital art experience through the end of 2027, according to the museum’s official listing. The site describes teamLab Planets as a museum where visitors walk through water and encounter artworks that change in response to their presence, making each visit different from the last.
The exhibition’s official duration runs from 7 July 2018 to 31 December 2027 at teamLab Planets TOKYO, Toyosu, in Tokyo. The museum’s page notes that tickets for November will be available starting in late August, and it also includes a notice regarding transportation methods.
Among the best-known works highlighted on the official page is 'Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People - Infinity'. In this installation, koi swim across a body of water that visitors can enter, and their movement is affected by people in the space as well as other koi. The page says that when fish collide with people they turn into flowers and scatter, and that the work is rendered in real time rather than played back from a recording or loop. It also states that previous visual states can never be replicated.
Another featured work, 'The Infinite Crystal Universe', uses light points to create a three-dimensional field that extends in all directions. Visitors use their smartphones to select stars to throw into the work, and those stars are reborn in three dimensions. The page says the installation changes moment by moment according to the presence and location of people inside the space.
The official materials also outline other parts of the venue, including 'Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers', 'Expanding Three-dimensional Existence in Transforming Space - Flattening 3 Colors and 9 Blurred Colors', 'Body of Waves', 'Ephemeral Crystallized Light', and 'Waterfall of Light Particles at the Top of an Incline'. Each of these works is described as responsive, continuously changing, and generated in real time, with people in the space affecting what they see.
Beyond the water-based works, the site lists a Garden area that includes 'Floating Flower Garden: Flowers and I are of the Same Root, the Garden and I are One', built from orchids that are described as alive, growing and blooming each day. It also describes 'Moss Garden of Resonating Microcosms - Solidified Light Color, Dusk to Dawn', where ovoids shift appearance with sunrise and sunset, glow after dark, and respond to wind and human touch.
The venue’s Athletics Forest section is presented as a series of artworks, including 'Athletics Forest: High-Dimensional Thinking using the body', 'Future Park: Co-Creation', and 'Catching and Collecting Forest: Catching and Collecting is fun, it's a way of learning, and part of life'. The official page also lists additional works such as 'Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Colored Birds', 'Balance Stepping Stones in the Invisible World', 'Graffiti Nature', and 'A Table where Little People Live', framing teamLab Planets as a venue built around physical movement, co-creation, and constant visual transformation.
