Hand touching bark. Photograph courtesy Aroussiak Gabrielian
Resonant Exchange invites participants into deep, sensate contact with a tree. Through a multi-speaker sound installation, a guided meditation syncs breath with sap flow, wind, and unseen energies, fostering shared perception and expanded communication. In attuning to the tree’s rhythms, we uncover new ways of knowing, reciprocity, and kinship beyond the human.
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Environmental Designer, Bioartist, and Futurist
Gabrielian reimagines human-nonhuman entanglements through landscape, media, and speculative design. A USC professor and Landscape Futures Lab director, she is founder of Foreground Design Agency, an award-winning, globally exhibited practice expanding climate imaginaries and reshaping how we envision ecological futures.
Visitors can meet directly at the pepper tree at the top of the Central Garden. Check in with one of our Visitor Services colleagues should you need assistance or directions.
This is a drop-in program available between noon and 5pm. Guests can participate in the meditation on a first come, first served basis, and will be able to add their names to a sign-up sheet on site. Though ticketed guests will get priority, walk-ups are welcome!
Guests will be guided through a meditation with the tree via headphones, which will be provided. You may also connect your own headphones via AUX cord (no Bluetooth).
While waiting for your turn with the tree, you may sit in a designated space in the garden and listen to the ambient sound installation.
We recommend comfortable clothing and shoes, though this does not require any special equipment.
The self-guided meditation lasts approximately 20 minutes.
Wheelchairs are available for free rental on a first-come, first-served basis at the Lower Tram Station above the parking structure and at the Coat Check Room in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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