Parsons School of Design
BFA Communication Design
Thesis 2014

Displaced
Férvido Frías

My project is an art piece that has been growing within my video work during the last couple of years. It is a multichannel video installation of a non-lineal narrative, constructed in part by some of the videos I’ve done in the past years. The video narrative is composed by literal images as well as ambiguous and undefined visuals. Both projections and sound are synchronized in an orchestrated fashion. This piece was triggered by my personal experience as a Dominican immigrant coming from the Dominican Republic to the Lower East Side to live with my grandmother, in an environment that might be homogeneous to some Dominican family settings here in the Big Apple, or maybe to others from other origins as well. But most importantly, this piece is about my struggle adapting to the New York culture translating my personality, while simultaneously also learning within my new environment about many unknown realities related to my family, and discovering the drama that has been rooted by dysfunctions transferred from past generations. How traditions and taboos are involved in the creation of those dysfunctions, and how the mass-consumed content from Hispanic television — which is also charged with drama in their soap operas and dysfunctional families in their TV shows, influence the perception of a population that in most cases has been in the US for more than two decades and still don’t know how to speak English. I think this piece is not only about me, but that might also relate to other people. Prejudice and perception are crucial, so putting things out of context is an important element I’m exploring with this video installation; ambiguity is something I expect to create in the spectator. I also intend to create a certain feeling of discomfort by using a few shocking images.

Sarah Alfulaij

Michael Anderson

Darwin Andrango

Leonardo Araujo

Atif Azam

Kyle Barber

Rachel Bernstein

Jillian Black

Matthew Boblet

Mallory Brennan

Joel Califa

Rosaurora Cardenas

Flora Chan

Hanna Chang

Julie Hanna Chea

Abby Wanyu Chen

Justin Cheung

Sherylene Chew

YunHee Choi

Mehr Chopra

Lu Chuang

YooMin Chun

Key Peum Chung

Haesoo Chung

Tyler Cohen

Vernicia Colon

Samantha Cooper

Gabriela d'Amato

Roderic David

Ambar Del Moral

Taryn Dooley

Anthony Duong

Patricia Encarnaciòn

Evelee Estevez

Virginia Leigh Farrell

Kean Ferin

Adam Fernandez

Enrique Ferreyros

Férvido Frías

Jane Gardner

Stephanie Gonzalez

Danielle Gorodenzik

Omar Greene

Gabrielle Guglielmelli

Elda Hadajian

Joy Han

Emma Hanson

Julio Hernandez

Jacob Hernandez

Chris Hong

Ann Yung Chu Hsieh

Xinle Jill Huang

Thanh Cong Huynh

Anthony Iciano

Wesley Johnson

Polina Kadkina

Byoungok Kim

Gena Kim

Lindsey Kim

Lucia Ji Won Kim

Tiffany Kim

Hyo Taek Kim

Esther Kim

Ga Hyun Kim

Jane Kim

Jae Young Kim

Daniella Krihely

Andrea Latimer

Seulbi Lee

Jina Lee

Yongmin Lee

JiYun Lee

Julie Lee

Jae Yong Lee

Iris Li

Joanne Chai Wen Lim

Octavio Llano

Rebecca Low

Andrea Fiorella Martinez

Odile Martínez-Santamari

Gerald Morin

Nadine Muhtadi

Phuong Nguyen

Brandon Nicolas

Seema Nisar

Grant Noel

Neal Oh

Solgil Oh

Valentina Pherson

Elli Pohl

Cody Pumper

Regina Puno

Shem Rajoon

Fabian Rastorfer

Bryan Ribeiro

Konstantinos Riginos

Sarah Rim

YoungHee Ryu

Sylvia Saborio

Joamir Salcedo

Camille Sacha Salvador

Emilio Sanchez

Katherine Santos

Joely Saravia

Amber Rose Seppi

Pauline Shin

Jennifer Shin

Anjana Singhwi

Renee Sluzhevsky

Meghan Smart

Noelle Smith

Chrystal Soegandhi

Wannina Somboonvechakarn

Albert Son

Suho Song

Charmaine Kwan Tung Sum

Natasha Sumant

Aija Suuta

Rachal Tai

Lisa Thieffry

Natashia Tjandra

Natasha Villarraga

Robert Vinluan

Francisco Vivar

Simone Wagner

Robert Waluszko

Kathleen Wang

Ashley Wayne

Boyun Yang

Kanny Yeung

Taylor Zanke

Frankie Zek

Sharon Zhang

Jody Zhou

Tiffany Zhu

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