Operation Theater (2025) is a multimedia installation that examines the shifting relationship between organs, organisms, and technologies at the threshold between the living and the mechanical. Drawing on personal experiences within hospital environments, Amos Peled reimagines medical elements and concepts as expressive, performative instruments through playful and speculative methods.

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The work is composed of soft robotic organs performers situated within an architectural structure reminiscent of a operation theater. Detached from the biological system that once defined them, these organs are no longer bound by belonging to an organism and their function as part. Instead, they become animated performers in a choreographed orchestration of movement and sound. Interwoven, they play rhythms sounds and movements of a bodily system in its absence. 

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Operation Theater constructs a speculative medical space where the point of focus no longer serves the patients. Through these reconfigurations, the installation reflects on how does introducing of simpel life like behaviors into a non-living object challenge our perception of the boundary between technology and biological systems, particularly in the medical context. As organs become instruments, the work proposes behaviors that are no longer exclusive to the boundaries of our bodies, extending into different realms.

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By: Amos Peled

Artistic and technical collaboration: Maarten Keus

Software development: Lawrence McGuire

Production and assistance: Inga Hirsch

The work was conceived and realised with the support of iii in an advisory role

 

Special thanks

Lara a dima, Yoel Peled, Matteo Marangoni, Ariel brown, Hadas Kedar, Jojo Knowles, Karel van Laere, Studio Patch.