The formula for life in Western metropolitan areas has erased the possibility of an artistic existence. The cost of living has made an alternative pathway unattainable, if even imaginable. As a result, social and cultural value is marginalized.

habitat recognizes the value of what is lost; the artistic residency sets out to present cultural production as economic progression, explore digital migration as means for financial release, and to honor the artist as his own project.

The program is bound by time and space. habitat explores creation under heightened financial and timely pressure by limiting the artist’s site of production to the hotel room — his home — for the duration of the residency. habitat appropriates constrains as methodology.