"'Made in China' is a small sticker, blind spot, or speck of dirt of the joy riding windshield of branded America. It is a speck that signifies fast consumption, fast turnover, and low prices. For 'Made in China' the production of the new is othered without a compromised appearance. The only avant grade is an inauthentic copy of the avant garde. 'Made in China' has the molds for branded objects, a reverse of the fetish object. How they invoke their own mythology is up in the air.

A Chinese Nike factory uses Nike's own technology to make cheaper knockoffs for the factory's own community as market. There are no counterfeit artists producing off brand Jeff Koons sculptures or Marina Abranovic performances would be because of the enforcement of art producer and consumer as separate and art's plea for authenticity. Through this alienation the Chinese and American object producer participates in separate processes of production as spectator, fantasizes about aesthetics without ideology, and achingly wishes to live life while ignoring the demographic under which the self is filed.

This is an experiment in the intersection of the artist and worker. It is every producer's dirty little secret that they make a tremendous effort to do just a little more. We make no claims to conclusion, only confusion. We only hope to attain through cyber business modeling a sustainable arena aware of a production site typically lost in transaction as metaphor for their own production sites.

We ask artists to intervene and to make new politics and ideas. We refuse the bifurcation of the art community by authenticity. This polarized narrative of market/starvation doesn't cultivate the growth needed to think and produce as one person not the feeding of an artistic community."