teamLab Opens Immersive Sauna Art Experience in Tokyo's Roppongi District
Japanese collective teamLab has launched TikTok teamLab Reconnect: Art with Rinkan Sauna in Tokyo's Roppongi district, blending interactive digital art with traditional sauna bathing. The project features three works from the new Supernature Phenomenon series, where visitors alternate between sauna, cold showers, and art contemplation. This sequence induces a 'sauna trance' that heightens senses and mental clarity, allowing deeper engagement with the artworks. A special TikTok collaboration titled Every Life Survives in Fluctuating Space uses augmented reality to enhance the experience. The venue opened in May 2021.
Key facts
- teamLab is a Japanese collective of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects.
- The project is called TikTok teamLab Reconnect: Art with Rinkan Sauna.
- It opened in May 2021 in Roppongi, Tokyo.
- Roppongi is known for its concentration of modern art.
- The experience includes three works from the Supernature Phenomenon series.
- Visitors change clothes, then alternate between sauna, cold showers, and art contemplation.
- The concept is based on 'sauna trance' which sharpens senses and clears the mind.
- A TikTok collaboration titled Every Life Survives in Fluctuating Space uses augmented reality.
Entities
Artists
- teamLab
Institutions
- teamLab
- TikTok
Locations
- Tokyo
- Roppongi
- Japan