teamLab Malaysia: New Immersive Art Installation Coming To LaLaport In August!

Eunis Ong

Last updated 22 Mar 2024

Photo Credit: teamLab website

Ready to step into a digital rooftop forest?

You may have been to or seen pictures of teamLab's mesmerizing exhibitions that come to life with immersive digital technology. The renowned international art collective that hails all the way from Japan has beautiful art installations at popular venues across the globe such as the National Museum of Singapore, ArtScience Museum, teamLab Borderless in Tokyo, Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, and more.

Temporary exhibitions have also planted footprints in cities like New York, London, Paris, Melbourne, Beijing, and more over the past few years. In case you've been running out of things to do in KL, we've got good news for you. A charming teamLab light art installation is brewing over at Lalaport BBCC, waiting to open to public in August! ✨

All we know about TeamLab's upcoming exhibition at Lalaport

Announcements of the upcoming teamLab installation have been made on the official teamLab website as well as Lalaport's social media accounts. Dreamily themed Resonating Microcosms, the installation will be held outdoors on the rooftop garden of the mall, and will showcase a landscape of ovoid (or in layman terms - egg-shaped) sculptures that glow gently and mysteriously in multi-colours against the night sky.

According to the teamLab website, these ovoids will change appearance with the sunrise and sunset by reflecting the world around them. They will also respond to each other, as well as to the people and environment around them (including stimuli such as wind, sunlight, and rain) - this means that guests will be able to interact with the structures, and watch them transform right in front of your eyes. You can walk around and even touch or push them to see how the ovoids react to you.

Here's a snippet from a statement released by teamLab, aimed to help visitors envision what to expect at the exhibit: "Touch one of the ovoids and watch it fall back and rise again, releasing a resonating tone and emitting a light colour specific to the sound. The surrounding ovoids will also start echoing the same tonal quality and colour as their neighbours."

The Resonating Microcosms installation will essentially be an exciting experimentation of the concept of colour and sound, and the ovoids will apparently have the capability to change into a total of 61 newly-defined light colours. 🌈

Also, while we believe the mysterious ovoids will look more dazzling as they glow in the dark, you can also visit the exhibition in the daylight, and see them reflect the environment on their mirrored surfaces. The above day and night photos are from a similar installation nestled within an acorn forest of Musashino, a city located in the west of Tokyo.

Best part? The exhibition is going to be free, and will be here for four months! So you really don't have to rush to see it once it lands in August, it's here to stay for a while.

Mark these details about the upcoming exhibition:

Address: Central Rooftop Garden (L4), LaLaport Bukit Bintang City Centre, No. 2, Jalan Hang Tuah, 55100 Kuala Lumpur
Exhibition dates: 4 August - 30 November 2022
Time: 10AM - 10PM, daily
Price: free!

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Doesn't this already sound like so much fun? No wonder Steve Aoki once described a the Tokyo teamLab museum as a 'virtual reality theme park'. ✨ If digital art museums are your sort of thing, be sure to add these venues to the itinerary of your next adventure: