We are a community based archive who perform histories through our own and invited artists’ observations. We encourage embodied fieldwork, listening practices, and material investigation as methods of observation, and we perform these histories through exhibitions, installations, choreographies, and residencies. 

Our goal is for these living archives to serve as creative and educational resources for artists and researchers across disciplines.

Rooted in a sense of place, our identity is shaped by our founder’s connection to home in Louisiana and Minnesota. This has inspired our local focus on the Gulf Coast, in the St. Croix River Valley, and across the Mississippi River from Headwaters to Gulf. 

This attention to a specific geography has inspired our particular focus on watershed systems, inviting work that examines human interventions in the natural world and the tension and interdependence between people and place. 

A House Unbuilt operates as a nonprofit for public benefit, in service of art that fosters more just and interconnected futures.