The Swedish Laundry Room
Immersive art installation transforming Sweden's iconic shared laundry rooms into spaces for memory and reflection. Uses TouchDesigner, Azure Kinect tracking, and synchronized projectors to create reactive surfaces. Spatial audio responds to visitor movement. Premiering at Gothenburg Film Studios in collaboration with Visual Arena and artist Gorki Glaser-Müller.
⚡ Challenges
- •Multi-projector edge blending
- •Real-time audio spatialization
- •Narrative pacing based on visitor flow
✓ Outcomes
- ✓500+ visitors in opening week
- ✓Featured in Swedish cultural press
- ✓Touring to 2 additional venues
📖 Full Details
The Swedish Laundry Room (Tvättstugan) is an immersive art installation that reimagines one of Sweden's most culturally significant spaces—the shared laundry room—as a canvas for memory, identity, and collective reflection. This collaboration between Visual Arena, Gothenburg Film Studios, Antaraal Studio, and artist Gorki Glaser-Müller invites visitors to experience the mundane through an extraordinary lens.
The installation uses multiple synchronized projectors controlled through TouchDesigner to transform physical laundry machines, walls, and fabrics into reactive surfaces. Spatial audio design creates an enveloping soundscape that responds to visitor movement and interaction, tracked by Azure Kinect depth cameras positioned throughout the space.
Visitors encounter personal stories collected from diverse communities—immigrants sharing first laundry room experiences, elderly Swedes reminiscing about childhood, and contemporary perspectives on this uniquely Swedish institution of shared domestic space. These narratives are woven into generative visual compositions that evolve based on audience presence and engagement.
The technical architecture handles real-time video mapping, audio spatialization, and sensor fusion from multiple Kinect cameras. Custom TouchDesigner components manage the show control system, allowing curators to adjust the experience's intensity and narrative flow.
Premiere: May 2025 at Gothenburg Film Studios.
