Finding by Doing: Taylor Le Melle and Richard Birkett on art's wages and decommodified labour

In the context of Text exercises and its formulation of exhibition-as-research, Taylor Le Melle and Richard Birkett discuss shared concerns around labour and its valuation in the art field. During their work on Text exercises, Le Melle and Birkett both read Leigh Claire La Berge's recent book Wages Against Artwork, and their discussion ruminates on the publication's examination of 'decommodified labour' in socially engaged art practices in the U.S. This is a recorded discussion, edited by Sandra Jean-Pierre for not/nowhere.  

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