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Assemble designs collective national hallucination

By 2022-02-17T07:00:00

Brion Gysin and his Dream Machine William Burroughs c 1970 London_credit...

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Audio-visual project will be experienced with eyes shut

Assemble has revealed details of a collective hallucinatory installation that visitors will experience with their eyes shut.

A flickering white strobe light will stimulate colourful kaleidoscopic illusions inside people’s brains, say the creators of Dreamachine.

It is one of 10 free installations across the country that will form part of the £120m national event formerly known as the Festival of Brexit and now named Unboxed 2022: Creativity in the UK.

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