Seeing double: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

The House Of Books Has No Windows (2008) Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian

The view inside The House of Books Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian

The Muriel Lake Incident (1999) is a cinema that you look in on. A pair of headphones provide the soundtrack to the film and other sounds from the movie-going experience Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian

Opera for a Small Room (2008) has a soundtrack comprising of records retrieved from a yard sale and played through vintage speakers Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian

The Dark Pool (1995): a junk shop featuring a model lake within a suitcase Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian

The Dark Pool has the air of an abandoned junk shop or workshop Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian

The Killing Machine (2007), based on Kafka's In the Penal Colony Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian

The red button of The Killing Machine permits the viewer to set the chair alive Photograph: Felix Clay/Guardian