How to Do Things with Art – The Meaning of Art's Performativity

PREFACE
Wily Stratagems by Hans Ulrich Obrist

INTRODUCTION
The Societal Efficacy of Art

CHAPTER I
THE TEMPORALITY OF ART
Presence, Experience and Historicity in the Works of James Coleman

CHAPTER II
THE REALITY OF ART
Context and Agency in the Works of Daniel Buren

CHAPTER III
THE MATERIALITY OF ART
Object and Situation in the Works of Tino Sehgal

CHAPTER IV
CRITIQUE AND CONSTRUCTION
Concluding with Jeff Koons