The Machine Sleeps Tonight

Amos Peled
Fri 5 Dec 20:30
Fri 5 Dec 2025
20:30
  • Fri 5 Dec 2025
    20:30
    Zaal 3, Den Haag
    De Constant Rebecqueplein 20-A
    Past event

The Machine Sleeps Tonight is an extension of Peled's ongoing appropriation of modern medical technologies and their use as performative instruments, casting critical perspectives on our shifting definition of health.

As for now, no one is present in the room; neither doctor nor patient. Only an anaesthesia machine, takes a deep breath, releasing air from its mechanical lungs, breathing at a steady calm pace.  A big shadow is cast upon the room - an inflated balloon, breathing in sync with the machine's ventilator, winking at its saviour with its single eye.

Following the traditions of art in the medical environment, Peled is searching for methods that not only lean on escapist encounters but also seek to voice dark humor, doubt, and suffering.

Credits

concept & performance Amos Peled | dramaturgy Ariel Sereni Brown | light and sound design Yoel Peled | customs Jojo Knowles | scenography and technical production Maarten Keus, Amos Peled 

mede mogelijk gemaakt door Amarte Foundation

special thanks Residenties in Utrecht, Diane Mahín, Marijn Alexander de Jong, Karel van Laere, Jacob Wallett, Job Sante, Hadas Kedar, Marlen Pflüger, Pelle Schilling, Lila Maria de Coninck, Beate Poikane, Inga Hirsch, Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii), Patch studios

 

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