Lani Trock

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

As an interdisciplinary artist, my practice centers in harmonious world-building. To awaken the collective imagination and actualize a new operating system for society, I work with organic sculptural materials to cultivate gentle environments, and invite 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, I build ephemeral altars and invite collaborators to activate them in joyful co-creation. In communion with site-specific, immersive installations, I facilitate group expressions of improvisational sound and movement techniques. Through these public programs, I invite 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, and 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, my 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.

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