sound curator, radio host, dj and visual artist
Email contact@luciakagramanyan.com
Instagram @luciaelhuron
Current
TOAST Artist Residency Florence, IT
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna- Fine Arts Diploma, MA Critical Studies
Upcoming
Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands 06 Feb 2026
Elevate Festival Graz, Austra March 2026
Past
Noyan juices solo exhibition @vochluysvochmut Yerevan, Armenia
Le Allianze dei Corpi Festival Milan, IT
Palazzo Bronzo aritst residency, Genoa, IT
Spazio Maromeo, Florence, IT
Framer Framed x VLeshaal, Amsterdam NL
Austrian Cultural Forum London, UK
Villa Romana, Florence, IT (DJ)
Vleeshal x Framer Framed
Her Voice. Behind Armenian lullabies lecture
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lecture at Framer Framed 25 November 2024 in Amsterdam
program curated by League of Tenders
radio show and podcast
commission for Vleshaal Institute, Netherlands
Read on Framer Framed
“For the project Her Voice: Behind Armenian Lulllabies, Lucia Kagramanyan collected Armenian lullabies that reflect the complexity of the tradition, which combines melodic chants and simple rhymes with myths, legends and tellings of personal and collective grief. These songs not only help to establish emotional bonds through sound, words and touch, but also form an integral part of oral history and cultural memory of the people – mostly produced by women in a non-didactic and healing way.
Women’s role in history, in resistance to oppression – as well as in the history of music – is often obscure. Nevertheless, the everyday work of raising children and transmitting collective memory, culture and language is not only fundamental for the political struggles but also for the healing process. Lullabies that are nowadays sung by Armenian mothers enable the interweaving of people’s struggles, sorrows, and joys across generations and national boundaries. In her project, Kagramanyan seeks to return the legacy of the women who created such an abundant and complex tradition — the legacy, which is an integral part of history, unlike their names.”
Cross Stones Cross Boundaries at Palazzo Bronzo
listening performance with wax candles
Genova, Italy
Cross stones and cross boundaries” is about perishability and easiness of rewriting history - Armenian cross-stones, khachkars, have been around in Anatolia since the 9th century. Many of them were destroyed and demolished, during countless raids in the centuries passed. But many, have been destroyed in modernity, during the 20th century. With them being a remarkable proof of ethnic presence, the demolishment of cultural heritage nowadays is a soft tool of ethnic cleansing. Paradoxically, while technology is celebrated for excellence in fact-checking, it enables the ease of rewriting history without a second thought, through propaganda and mass media.
The sound of Armenian church music is monodic, based on the idea that God is one, and the voice should be one. This is very similar to what folk music in Armenia sounds like - full of loneliness it is rarely performed by many, but rather a folk song is an act of solitude and a moment of intimacy. Church for Armenians, paradoxically, an institution of cultural survival, with libraries in every monastery and archives, and millions of books passed through generations, like a proof of existence.