Seyi Adelekun
Interdisciplinary artist exploring ecological connection, indigenous knowledge, and environmental justice.
Seyi Adelekun’s practice serves as a medium for archiving and disseminating ancestral wisdom. Weaving together installation, performance, ritual and sound art, they use storytelling as a tool for world-building liberatory futures. Their work is deeply rooted in embodied and oral knowledge, exploring eco-spirituality as a form of resistance against environmental racism. Seyi facilitates space for healing through somatic movement and land-based practices by inviting collaboration and collective awareness to honour the interwoven histories of people and ecosystems.
During the residency, they hope to expand “Healing Forest: An Ecology of Spiritual Herbalism,” a previous work that was developed for KLA ART 2024. The work uses sounds to archive and revive Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), amplifying underrepresented yet powerful global majority voices who are working to repair our social-ecological crisis. They hope to collaborate with composers and sound designers, to transform interviews with radical spiritual land-workers into immersive soundscapes that integrate field recordings, spoken word, and music; drawing on ancestral connections to the natural and spiritual world.
For their live performance they plan on developing low-tech sound sculptures and incorporate somatic movement through voice and body to evoke the connection between the physical and metaphysical realms.