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Lara Sarkissian

Lara Sarkissian is a Los Angeles-based electronic musician and sound artist from San Francisco whose work engages contemporary diasporic subcultures, sonic archives, and speculative approaches to electronic composition. Through her label btwn Earth+Sky and broadcasts on NTS Radio, Sarkissian explores regional electronic lineages alongside Armenian archival sound and remnants shaped by her family’s Iranian-Armenian roots. Formerly co-running the experimental curatorial platform CLUB CHAI, Sarkissian has performed at MoMA PS1, Unsound, Public Records, Roskilde, Asian Art Museum, and Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Her interdisciplinary practice spans sound installation, audiovisual work, and film scoring, with projects presented at the Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou, Gropius Bau, MASS MoCA, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Music Center Los Angeles.