Mind Tunnel is a site-specific audiovisual experience developed in collaboration with Slash Arts and Copper Quay. The work transforms the historic Islington Tunnel into an immersive passage of sound, laser light, and haze.

Created together with artist Cainy and featuring an original sound composition by LAPIS, the project explores the tunnel as both architectural structure and psychological metaphor. This historic canal tunnel, where industrial engineering merges with natural environment, possesses a rare spatial character. The twenty minute boat journey through darkness heightens anticipation and uncertainty, turning physical travel into a perceptual transition.

Audience members enter the tunnel by boat, gradually leaving daylight behind. Three laser systems were mounted onto the vessel. One forms a horizontal plane above, like an artificial sky hovering within the haze. The other two projected toward the tunnel walls and water surface, generating shifting linear animations and abstract patterns. Reflections on water multiplied the beams, dissolving the boundary between solid structure and illusion.

The visual narrative evolved alongside the soundscape, moving from elemental and atmospheric textures toward more minimal structural compositions. Water, echo, and light became extensions of one another. We conceived the tunnel as a mirror of the mind; a portal into a spiritual interior landscape.

The experience unfolded in two contrasting chapters during the outward and return journeys. Each section presented a distinct audiovisual composition, inviting audiences to confront different emotional states before gradually reconnecting with external reality upon re emerging into daylight. The complete journey lasted approximately thirty minutes, forming a circular narrative of departure and return.




Mind Tunnel 是一件结合声音、激光、烟雾与特定场域的沉浸式体验，并与伦敦船屋画廊 Slash Arts和Copper Quay合作研发。作品以伦敦历史悠久的 Islington Tunnel 为场域，将其转化为一条通往精神世界的光与声之通道。 由我与艺术家 Cainy 共同创作，声音部分由声音艺术家 LAPIS制作完成。

Islington 运河隧道本身是一个独特的空间结构，工业工程与自然水域交织融合。船只穿越隧道单程约十几二十分钟，漫长的黑暗航行强化了未知与不确定感。这不仅是一条物理通道，更像是一条通往内在意识深处的路径。

观众乘船进入隧道，在逐渐远离自然光线的过程中，被回声与抽象光束所包围。我们在船体上固定了三台激光装置：其中一台在烟雾中形成如天空般悬浮的顶部光平面；另外两台则向隧道墙面与水面投射，生成不断变化的线条动画与抽象图形。水面的反射让光束产生倍增与折射，使空间边界变得模糊而流动。

视觉与声音共同构建叙事结构，从更具自然与精神意味的氛围段落，逐渐过渡到趋向纯粹结构性的节奏与图形表达。水、回声与光在空间中交织，使隧道成为心灵的镜像场域。

在往返同一条隧道的两个段落中，我们分别创作了两套不同的视听作品，引导观众在不同心理状态之间转换与反思。当船只重新驶出隧道，光线回归现实，整个约三十分钟的旅程完成了一次完整的循环: 从进入未知，到重新连接现实。

Mind Tunnel 试图以最简洁的光与声，激活一个历史场域，使其成为一段关于意识、时间与空间的体验。