Excerpt from Decapitalism by John Kelsey

The contemporary artist doesn't just produce and present objects or images; he produces production itself, presentation itself...images and ideas of these that are at the same time (like it or not) ethical propositions.  Like any worker today, the artist's job is also to talk and move, putting words, images, and his own body into circulation.  More than anything, he makes momentum.  But there is really no time to think about this now.  There is only the possibility of putting this no-time to work, and of capturing it in frozen glimpses, which are themselves built on speed and work.  And any work that holds our attention today is one that not only shows itself, but also shows it could be otherwise, shows that the relation between an artist and his own activity can always be modified, even interrupted.  Art becomes a way of working on the displacement of information from one format to another, and of working on the way we are displaced too, in work and in play.  At what point do the boundaries of the artwork dissolve in the momentum that carries it along, and how can this be made visible?