Below please find an interview with Christine Hill, whose Berlin (and now NYC) based project straddled the line between commerce and art. As she says in the interview, ""I've always held the belief that art is labor that deserves proper compensation." I believe that when we begin looking at art as labor, we can begin asking questions of value that go beyond the normal gallery/theatre context: how much is art activity worth? Why is an artist's time not "waged," but output-based? If we began paying an artist by the hour, what sort of fruits would that labor need to provide? For example, a lawyer or accountant bill by unit of time - hours and minutes. Could we hire an artist as a consultant, trusting that their "work" would be of a similarly high quality to that of other working professionals?

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/07/interview-with-20.php