Frayed by Sevan Mujukian is a series of interactive audiovisual landscapes about diaspora, longing, memory, and carpets.
Mujukian identifies as non-binary and is a new media designer & artist, educator, and beat-maker. They are the founding editor and designer of The Hye-Phen Magazine, a queer, Armenian-centered community and platform.
Their work has been featured in The New York Times, Artsy Magazine, Hyperallergic, Popsugar, The New Inquiry, The Armenian Review, Rutger’s Humanist Magazine, and KQED.
Frayed is a short series of interactive audiovisual experiences that harness the medium of Armenian carpets to look into my family over the course of three generations, exploring the impact that immigration to the United States has had on the changing idea of family.
A homage to the poetic and musical nature of Armenian carpets- their visual compositions, how they are made, and how they are used- Frayed uses carpets and sound to tell a story about how westernization and economic hardship can quickly lead to cultural and familial unravelling.
Frayed Synopsis
You can learn more about Frayed and Mujukian’s work by visiting their website. You can also play the first build of Frayed through this Google Drive download.
