“Generosity in the confrontational mode uses gifts, generous actions, and alternative exchange systems as a forum for social dissent and criticism. Based on a nominally gregarious or generous gesture, the projects within this group have an underlying interest either in questioning the politics of unequal distribution of wealth or in creating a temporary situation where market capitalism is relaced by other modes of exchange such as barter and redistribution… Through alternative systems, irony, and strategies of detournment (recontextualizing images in order to subvert their original meaning and create a new, often politically charged meaning), the act of giving becomes a criticism of not giving; temporary abundance, limited by the art projects’ scope and duration, is used to invoke scarcity.”

- p. 102, What We Want Is Free, edited by Ted Purves.