Arts

Tokyo has many wonderful art museums. You can find them in almost every corner of the city. They have excellent independent exhibitions as well. Perhaps none of them achieved the level of global fame though as the now-closed teamLab Borderless in Odaiba.  This article is about the follow-up to that stunning exhibit, the equally astonishing teamLab Planets.  The new exhibit, created by digital art collective teamLab, opened in Toyosu, a stop away from the new fish market. It was actually scheduled to close at the end of 2022, but it has been extended to the end of the year. Which means that you should probably be trying to go right now.  The exhibits themselves are interactive and ever-changing suites of light and sound; no two people will experience them in the same way, and that’s a good thing. The designers themselves dub the museum to be “body immersive” in order to dissolve boundaries between the artwork and the watcher as well as the boundaries between visitors and the world. Trippy stuff.  As you move throughout the complex, each exhibit melds into the next, and at times the interactions seemed to follow me. This is not by accident, as the works…