 Bruguera began in 2011 by spending a year living in a small apartment in Corona, Queens, with five immigrants and their children.She was interested in experiencing some problems immigrants without residency papers encountered trying to survive on low pay and without health insurance.The project, funded by the Queens Museum of Art and a nonprofit arts group called Creative Time, also involved opening a storefront in New York where Bruguera wanted to hold arts workshops for immigrants, but found that most of the people who came to the store were interested in learning English or help finding employment or legal aid.