„Quiet Please“

Neue Saalecker Werkstätten
Germany 2024

Site Specific Installation
Design Akademie Saaleck



„QUIET, PLEASE“
TOMI SEYI LAJA
INSTALLATION
2024

A SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION QUIETLY PERFORMING AGENCY, REST, AND REFLECTION. THE ASSEMBLAGE ASKS: WHOSE LABOR IS RESPONSIBLE IN HEALING „DIFFICULT HISTORIES“?

1    A CENSORED AGREEMENT ATOP A MATTE WHITE PILLAR
CAPPED WITH WHITE FOAM PIECES.

2    STOCKPILE: BEGINNING WITH FIVE STACKS OF 168 PAGES
OF A4 COPY PAPER.

3    FOUND OBJECTS: AUDIO EQUIPMENT CASES, HP OFFICEJET PRO 7744 SERIES
PRINTER, HOLE PUNCHER, BLACK DUCT TAPE, MIRROR, PORCELAIN TILES,
OFFICE CHAIR, FOLDING TABLE, EXTENSION CORD.

2025       Soundbather (Sonic Rest Architectonics), Berlin, Germany+

Sculpture

2025       Deep in the Woods (A Sonic Rest Architectonic), Berlin, Germany+

Sound Art

2025       Commercial Retail Interior, Manhattan, New York, USA+

Design

2025       Send / Receive (Art & Architecture), Berlin, Germany+

Consulting

2025       Silicity Protocols #5+

Publication

Publication

Publication

2024       On Disturbance: Ecology, Techtonics, and the Sonic+

Research

2024       On Poetics, Abstraction, and the Cool, Bard College, New York, USA

Lecture

Research

Consulting

Direction

Exhibition

Publication

2022       SOM: Celebrating Women in Design

Profile

2022       High-rise Hotel & Residences, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Design

Editorial

Publication

Publication

2019       Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy

Editorial

2018       Hiding in Plain Sight, CDMX, Mexico, USA

Design


+ ongoing / forthcoming