BOTS & PRAYERS

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LONDON PREMIERE: NOVEMBER 2026

BOTS & PRAYERS

We Built New Gods. Now They Own Us.

A Cathedral to the Future  ·  A Funeral for Our Freedom

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THE CRISIS

You confess more to the algorithm than to any priest, partner or friend.

The algorithm is your priest. The feed is your god. The prayer is the scroll.

We are kneeling to systems we didn't build, don't understand, and can no longer stop. If we don't pause now, we will forget what it means to be human.

THE VISION

A cathedral-scale immersive experience where visitors walk through the catastrophic collision between technology and faith — from awe to dread, from devotion to damnation, from watching to being watched.

Ten rooms of reckoning.  ·  London 2026.

The quietest revolution
in human history.

Not a war. Not a vote. A slow, seductive handover. While temples empty, data centres fill. We confess to AI and call it a search. We let algorithms map our thoughts before we finish them.

No exhibition of this scale has confronted algorithmic control with this degree of artistic seriousness. Bots & Prayers is a large-scale, multi-room immersive experience — part theatre, part installation, part reckoning. Visitors move through darkly beautiful ritual spaces fusing live performance, interactive installations, projection mapping, spatial sound, and video.

Each room does what no documentary can: make you feel the system from the inside. Gothic architecture reimagined in glass and LED. Robot hosts who begin warm and become honest. A journey through seduction, complicity, grief, and — finally — choice.

The work uses its form to reinforce its argument. The architecture of surveillance is made visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Visitors do not observe the system. They participate in it.

10
Immersive rooms, each a distinct ritual space on a single journey
November
2026
London World Premiere — then international tour
Zero
Major cultural exhibitions confronting algorithmic control at this scale. Until now.

Ten Rooms. One Reckoning.
Do These Gods Set You Free?

Visitors enter through seduction. They leave through choice. In between: revelation, complicity, grief, exposure, consequence — revealed through performance, installation, projection mapping, spatial sound, and AI-generated films. Robot hosts guide the descent, warm at first, then saying things you cannot unhear.

I–II Seduction Beauty before the truth
III–IV Intimacy Personal becomes data
V Grief The cost made visible
VI–VIII Exposure What it means to be known
IX–X Choice The only unrecorded moment

AI anxiety is at an all-time high.

Audiences are hungry for experiences that name what they feel — and let them actually feel it. Not a panel discussion. Not a documentary. A room they walk through.

Immersive art is booming.

Secret Cinema. Sleep No More. teamLab. The global appetite for participatory art has never been stronger, and London sits at the centre of it.

London is the stage.

The city that gave the world Banksy, Punchdrunk, and the Tate Modern is ready for this. No other city combines the cultural ambition, the audience appetite, and the international reach.

No one else is doing this.

No experience combines immersive installation, AI performance, and genuine moral provocation at this scale. The space exists. The moment is now. This is the work that fills it.

The subject is everyone.

Not in the vague, marketing sense. In the specific sense: the systems shaping how you think, vote, spend, and connect are not abstract concerns. They govern every life — regardless of whether you follow the AI debate, have read the terms you agreed to, or simply own a phone you have started to distrust.

Bots & Prayers is for the digitally anxious and the digitally fluent. For young people who have grown up entirely inside algorithmic systems and never known anything else. For parents who sense something has shifted in their children but cannot name it. For educators, journalists, and campaigners who work on these questions every day and still need to feel them, not just analyse them.

No prior knowledge required. Only willingness to walk through a space and feel what is already happening.

Nothing should block the door.

Tickets are available at standard, concession, and group rates — concession pricing at 50% of standard admission. Dedicated allocations for schools, community organisations, and universities.

The venue is step-free throughout, with accessible facilities and clear wayfinding. BSL interpretation is available. Sensory-adjusted sessions allow neurodiverse visitors to experience the work with the intensity of certain rooms reduced.

Content guidance is provided at booking and at the entrance. Some parts of this exhibition are designed to create genuine emotional discomfort. That is the point. Visitors are fully informed before they enter.

We want audiences confronted. Not ambushed.

Raj Samuel

Artistic Director

Experience designer, cultural strategist, and founder of Malice Arts. A decade of immersive worlds that leave a mark.

It began with a pun. Malice in Wonderland: a beloved story turned inside out, familiar comfort curdled into something darkly unrecognisable. The name stuck. And so did the method.

For a decade, across ten events, Malice Arts brought thousands of participants through immersive worlds built on one question: what if we took something from culture — something people thought they understood — and twisted it until they saw it completely differently?

Every event fused music, performance, and set design into something that felt less like a party and more like a world. The Evening Standard, The Handbook, and Time Out followed. An 85% return rate — because transformative experiences leave a mark.

Selected Works
  • 1984 vs 1984
  • Trumpocalypse
  • Blizzard of Odd
  • Once a Tron a Time
  • The Lion, The Glitch & The Wardrobe
  • Bots & Prayers — 2026
Evening Standard · The Handbook · Time Out London

Magnus Wood

Commercial & Operations Director

Project management, budget oversight, venue negotiations and partner relationships. Extensive experience in immersive event production and commercial strategy.

Magnus brings the operational architecture that allows ambitious creative work to exist in the world: structuring the finances, building the partnerships, and keeping the vision intact under the pressure of real production. His background spans immersive event production and commercial strategy across cultural and brand contexts.

Working in close collaboration with Raj, Magnus ensures that the scale of ambition Bots & Prayers demands is matched by the rigour of its delivery.

MALICE ARTS London · Est. 2015
Sonic Director Recruiting June–July 2026

Designs the exhibition’s sonic architecture — a shifting soundscape moving visitors through seduction, intensity, rupture, and finally into silence.

Jessi-Lu Flynn Performer Development · Wide Eyes Productions

Directs the robot hosts and manages the performer network. 6 previous Malice Arts collaborations.

Gerred Blyth Visual FX · Public Service Broadcasting

Consults on room experience design, bringing the visual language of large-scale cultural production to each installation.

John Middlehurst Projection Mapping

Delivers the projection architecture — transforming raw architecture into immersive visual environments across all ten rooms.

Dan Taylor PR & Marketing

Leads press strategy and cultural audience campaigns. Shaped the identity and digital presence of Bots & Prayers from the ground up.

Kurt Frey Narrative

Provides narrative guidance, ensuring the arc of the exhibition holds its moral and dramatic weight from room to room.

Producer Recruiting June–July 2026

Identify candidates from the Malice Arts production network, IEN/WXO connections, and broader.

Technical Director Recruiting June–July 2026

Identified candidates from the same network. Oversees technical delivery across AV, projection, interactive systems, and installation.

Simon Edwards MindBlown · Advisor

15+ years in immersive design including Burning Man. Advises on audience journey design and interactive experience architecture.

James Wallman CEO, World Experience Organisation · Advisor

Author and global authority on the experience economy. Advises on positioning Bots & Prayers within the broader landscape of transformative cultural experiences.

Believers in the Urgent Need
to Build Awe Before It's Too Late.

Funding

  • Arts Council Funding
  • Additional grant sources
  • Co-producing venue partnerships

Spaces

  • London venue equal to the ambition
  • 10,000–15,000 sq ft
  • Central location, atmospheric

Sponsors

  • Philosophical brands
  • Cultural risk-takers
  • Media & wellness partners

Network

  • Introductions to believers
  • Venue connections
  • Press & cultural contacts
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