As part of iMAL Projects Office 2026, Amos and Yoel Peled are selected for STAGES#3 in collaboration with A Two Dogs Company, to work on their project "The Teacher".

Across belief systems, technologies are rarely a human invention. Instead, they are transmitted through non-human voices: gods, angels, aliens, spirits. Language, writing, agriculture, emerge through instruction rather than invention. Within this archetypal structure, digital intelligence can be understood as a contemporary continuation of these figures.

The Teacher (working title) is an installation and performance that reenact the return of such digital entities to introduce new forms of technologies for our digital, post-human world.

Thinking about the digital future, we are interested in the vanishing of human presence from the stage both physically and vocally. To establish this re-enactment, we will develop artificial voices trained on an understanding of how non-human supreme entities sound: gods, aliens, mythical creatures, supernatural forces. Through the study of textual descriptions, recordings, testimonies, and reenactments of those who have heard such voices, we will construct a synthetic vocal model that speaks in this tongue.

We situated this within a digital logic scenography. The stage is an abstract, low-poly landscape inhabited by three mythical, mechanized entity-puppets. Animated and voiced by a digital system, they function as teachers, figures present at the origin of knowledge who now return at its end to guide its transformation. They do so by instructing low-poly geometric forms, covered with digital imagery, to move along the X and Y axes of the stage. These forms connect, separate, and assemble, visualizing the introduction of new technology through a logic resembling computer games, and digital symbolism.

The stage is a fully mechanized, digitally controlled, this will allow experimentation with digital methodologies of composing, dramaturgy, and directing on the physical stage, a self-contained operating system.

Amos and Yoel Peled, twins born in 1997, are multidisciplinary artists based in Antwerp and The Hague. Their practice moves between experimental music, performance, installation, theatre, digital art, and art science. Their work has been presented in festivals, venues, theatres, and galleries including Rewire Festival, Osmo/za, Paradise Must Be Nice Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, KIKK Festival, Fotograf Zone Festival, Zaal 3 HNT, Tetem, and others.

Their artistic practice is to create a shared ground in which objects, thoughts, sounds, and systems can be played with as instruments. Coming from a background in sound they build sculptural, theatrical, and technological environments: stages that act as instruments, machines that sing, and systems that reveal their own frequencies.

Their work is concerned with the border between the artificial and the mythical, between digital technology and physical knowledge. They are interested in the human presence disappearing from the stage as a reflection on contemporary reality, replaced by voices, mechanisms, digital entities, and non-human forms of knowledge. In their recent works, they appropriate technological systems and obsolete machines as performers, instruments, and carriers of meaning, exploring how bodies, voices, communication, and perception are transformed when mediated through non-human mechanisms.

They believe they are here, on this planet, in order to create something wonderful. The distance between this and reality is unbearable.

As we were born in Israel, it is important for us to be very clear about our political standpoint. We do not in any way support or reflect the horrific actions of the Israeli fascist government and people in occupied Palestine and beyond.

Credit photo portrait: Maya Landsman