Conductor was a site specific installation made in response to wapping Hydraulic Pumping station and commissioned for the opening of the building as a gallery and restaurant in October 2000. The work remained in situ for 6 months.

The viewer walked through a door that took them from the ground level of the Engine Room and aped onto a suspended steel staircase from where they looked into the Boiler House. The space opened up as the floor fell away by a storey below and the ceiling remained 8 meters above.

Wapping Hydraulic Power Station is the kind of large mechanical system that invoked the technological sublime lauded by the world fairs. Some of the machinery is gone and the vast underground network of 186 miles of pipes that crossed London carrying water under pressure have always been out of sight, but in Conductor they are reanimated. Electro luminescent cables allude to the fibre optics fired along the matrix of pipes when Mercury Communications took it over. Stepping into the Boiler House, from the Link Hallway, into the darkness split with lines of green light, the cables reflected in 74 tonnes of water appear to continue forever. Burke notes that while darkness is sublime, "a quick transition from darkness to light" produces an effect on the mind that is even more powerful.