Wrestling with Language


Rachel Falcone and Michael Premo are the co-founders of Housing is a Human Right, an art project that acts as an ongoing documentary portrait of the struggle for home. Falcone and Premo interview people about their community and experiences trying to obtain or maintain a home, and collect these oral histories as well as photographs and multimedia.Check out Housing is a Human Right’s profile.

  • How important is language when working in socially-engaged art?  
  • How does calling a project art affect how it is experienced?
  • Is creativity a language in itself?

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Click here to see the un-edited footage of Housing is a Human Right.

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