In Japan and also in other countries, one can find a modern art museum from teamLab.
In Tokyo, I reviewed their digital art museum teamLab Planets in Toyosu (not far from the new Toyosu Fish Market), and now I am going to review their much larger digital art museum, teamLab Borderless (or their much larger name: MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: teamLab Borderless).
According to teamLab:
People understand and recognize the world through their bodies, moving freely and forming connections and relationships with others. As a consequence the body has its own sense of time. In the mind, the boundaries between different thoughts are ambiguous, causing them to influence and sometimes intermingle with each other.
teamLab Borderless is a group of artworks that form one borderless world. Artworks move out of the rooms freely, form connections and relationships with people, communicate with other works, influence and sometimes intermingle with each other, and have the same concept of time as the human body.
People lose themselves in the artwork world. The borderless works transform according to the presence of people, and as we immerse and meld ourselves into this unified world, we explore a continuity among people, as well as a new relationship that transcends the boundaries between people and the world.
Needless to say, if you are interested and live outside of Japan, I highly recommend purchasing tickets from KLOOK (currently tickets are: $29.45) which offers discounted tickets for teamLab Borderless. Where TeamLab Planets requires one to purchase the ticket on the TeamLab Planets website or at the location, I do recommend people pre-purchasing their tickets from KLOOK.
And the good thing, unlike TeamLab Planets where you have to be at the location at a designated time, with TeamLab Borderless, you can show up anytime and get in line for the next timeblock and it’s first come, first serve.
Another thing to know is that the day before your tickets activate, TeamLAB will send you an e-mail with the QR code. I highly recommend once you get the e-mail, take a screen capture and use the screencapture, as you will need to take it to a machine that reads the QR code once you get inside the main building. Trying to access the e-mail inside the building using a simcard or pocket wi-fi can be a hassle, so it’s good to have that QR code image ready at the get go.
And another reason why I recommend getting there a bit early…lines. A lot of people are also wanting to go to Borderless.
This was the scene around 8:45 p.m. or so, by the time I got to the end of the line and to enter the building, I think I waited around 30-40 minutes. Fortunately, the line does move quickly and the location can accommodate a lot of people.
In tomorrow’s post, I will discuss about what happens once you get inside teamLab Borderless!
