‘Disjointed days’: Contemporary art and the human right to housing

The human right to housing has a strange status in law, simultaneously codified in a number of international conventions and severely criticized, misunderstood or misinterpreted. This article considers two artistic views on the value of the human right to housing: Martha Rosler’s ‘If You Lived Here....

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Published in:Journal of arts and communities 2016-10, Vol.8 (1-2), p.93-105
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