Events

Join artist Lani Trock of Soft Future for a guided immersive listening experience and participatory listening experience in response to her installation in Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination. Set within the landscape of Pasadena's Arlington Gardens, this immersive program invites participants into a shared space of deep listening, gentle movement, and collective presence.

Through sound, voice, and embodied attention, participants will be guided through practices of slowing down, grounding, and attuning to both body and environment. Developed in collaboration with artists and musicians David Moses, Sheila Govindarajan, and Kiernan, the program creates opportunities for reflection, connection, and renewal through collective experience.

As a restorative offering, Field of Listening welcomes community members seeking space for care, contemplation, and reconnection in the wake of recent wildfires. Presented in partnership with Arlington Gardens and Living Earth, the program extends the exhibition’s exploration of craft, intuition, and practices of healing.

The event is free to attend. RSVP required. Space is limited.

Doors open at 6:00 PM, the event runs from 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring a blanket, cushion, or portable chair for seating on the lawn. Comfortable clothing is recommended.

About the Artists

Lani Trock is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on harmonious world-building. To awaken the collective imagination and actualize a new operating system for society, she works with organic sculptural materials to cultivate gentle environments, and invites visitors to contemplate from their unique voice and vision, how they would imagine the world at peace. Engaging with art as a spiritual practice, honoring the studio & gallery as spaces of devotion, she builds ephemeral altars and invites collaborators to activate them in joyful co-creation. In communion with her site-specific, immersive installations, she facilitates group expressions of improvisational sound and movement techniques. Through these public programs, she invites participants to co-create the new earth – an alternative cultural paradigm that seeks to shift away from a capitalist logic of scarcity, commodification, and competition, towards equitable abundance, collaboration, and mutual benefit. This way of seeing is grounded in the understanding that everything is alive, has spirit, and that together, we all coexist as an interconnected, symbiotic organism. Bridging physical and virtual modalities, her participatory artworks integrate the biomimetic intelligence of natural ecosystems with the collectivist principles underlying open-source software to imagine a symbiotic society, rooted in an ethos of care.

Trock was born and raised in Hawai’i and has a BA in Philosophy from UC Santa Cruz. She has shown work at OCHI, Praz-Delavallade, Jeffery Deitch with Nicodim, and the LA Municipal Art Gallery. She has been published in Autre Magazine, Murder Magazine, and Plant Magick from The Library of Esoterica, Vol 4., published by Taschen Books. In 2021, she had a solo exhibition at Hansell Gallery during her year-long residency at The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles and participated in Kernel, a fellowship to explore the intersection of web3 & public goods. She is a longtime resident of Los Angeles.

David Moses is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and educator based in East Los Angeles. His music practice explores the intersection of experimentation and intuition, moving fluidly through open-source music software (Monome Norns), field recordings, live resampling, electroacoustic processing, and generative composition techniques. Shaped by Los Angeles’s vibrant experimental community—where jazz, ambient, and exploratory music freely overlap—David has become a frequent collaborator within the city’s improvised music scene.

He performs solo and in various ad-hoc ensembles across Los Angeles and alongside his wife, artist Lani Trock, co-leads a community-oriented ensemble project Soft Future

Sheila Govindarajan is a licensed Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner, Doula, Aromatherapist, and sound artist with over 15 years of experience treating complex health conditions through Ayurvedic medicine, somatic therapy, and botanical healing. She founded Rasa Veda to offer powerful, intentional treatments and therapeutically crafted products that bridge ancient wisdom with modern wellness.

Kiernan is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kiernan is a classically-trained cellist, and has spent much of the last decade working and writing for other musicians. Her own work mixes the intimacy of folk music with the warmth of ambient music, and is both personal and melancholic.

Partnering Organizations

Arlington Garden is a three acre garden on Caltrans-owned land. It is leased to the City of Pasadena and entrusted by the city to Arlington Garden in Pasadena, an independent non-profit 501(c)3 corporation. This garden is not only friendly to people and pets but also serves as a refuge for Pasadena’s native fauna. Birds, bees and butterflies are particularly abundant and can be seen throughout the year.

Arlington Garden was developed in collaboration between Arlington Garden in Pasadena, City of Pasadena, Pasadena Department of Public Works, and Pasadena Water & Power, with help from Pasadena Beautiful Foundation and the Mediterranean Garden Society. Continued support comes from garden clubs, local businesses, nurseries, neighbors and friends.

Living Earth is a solar-powered & Grammy-nominated outdoor arts series that works in conversation with conservation organizations, public parks, gardens, unique land projects, and cultural institutions to gather peoples of all ages to explore Tovaangar (Los Angeles) through live performances, workshops, and transformative outdoor adventures.

Created and operated by local artists, naturalists, and organizers, these gatherings blend our lifetime love of interdependent music and native ecology, emphasizing deep listening as a form of reciprocity with the living world.

Image (from left): Lani Trock, David Moses, Sheila Govindarajan, and Kiernan. Courtesy of the artists.

Lead support for all Armory programs comes from the Perenchio Foundation. Exhibition public programs are supported, in part, by California Community Foundation.