“Manufacturing Content” contains a slightly revised and expanded version of a talk given by the artist as part of the graduate conference “I Don’t Care to Discuss It: Art, Media, and the State of a Globalized Economy” held at the University of Western Ontario in 2009, and documentation of the accompanying exhibition “Free Ideas.” Works in the exhibition included a series of wall-hanging paper-mache sculptures and other works priced between $2.25 10 $101. A didactic panel provided the following information:
“The artwork in “Free Ideas” has been priced according to a $14/hr wage. No cost has been added to account for the informational or cultural content of the art, or for its market value. Since most of the materials used are found or inexpensive, their cost is negligible and is therefore not included”
Second edition.