Introduction: The Eurocentrism of contemporary art, staging the project / I live in the fourth dimension when I create landscapes : artist statement / Seeing beyond east/west divides: contemporary art in and around 1980s China / Is there a line that connects all things? Artist statement / Why contemporary art is post-Soviet / Art and politics : artist statement / Māori and pacific art at the turn of a new millennium / Art for abolition : artist statement / Situating African diasporic art / Institutions/Ontology. Colonialism : "the whole world in his hands" : a decolonial approach to European concepts of art / Pedagogy : the blank canvas and other myths / Craft : craft and the making of "Global" contemporary art / Performance : dreams and visions in the interval / Embodiment/materiality : love songs (to end hetero-patriarchal, settler-colonial, extractivism) / Politics/Public sphere. Revolution : revolution is a circle / Art and its marketplaces : it was a small world, after all / Public spheres : the politics of public space in postrevolutionary Iran / (Anti-)capitalism : the imminent promise and fear of a getaway car / Environment : envisioning a more just future : feminist activist art, climate change, and the anthropocene / Identity/Subjectivity. Indigeneity : global futurisms : prophetic practices of reclamation, liberation, and transcendence / Diaspopra : transnational collectivities of solidarity and affect / Gender/sexuality : performing the intersection : camp and the "cat lady" / Race/ethnicity : three forms of appropriation : Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon, and Nao Bustamante / Methods/Theories. Postcolonial/decolonial : post-/anti-/neo-/de- colonial theories and visual analysis / Marxism/post-Marxism : history, Marxism, reality, and utopia : the Bishan project in China (2010-2016) / Critical race theory : "the blast work" : situating critical race theory in contemporary art and curatorial practice / Postculturalism/postmodernism/postcolonialism : mapping poststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism / Gender/sex theory : feminist/queer/trans theory and trans embodied methodologies in contemporary art : an intergenerational dialogue on the page / Performance theory : the "studies protocols" of performance studies / Technology/Media. Internet : "bias is not a bug. It's a feature" : an interview with Hito Steyerl on representation in the digital age / Social media : why is it so hard to look the other in the eye? The selfie and its discontents / Algorithm : algorithms in global art and visual culture / Exhibition/collecting/archive. Museum : time, love, and the museum / Biennial/art fair : biennial as a discursive political system for contemporary art / Curating : in residence, incarcerated Regina Jose Galindo's America's family prison / Collecting : the world should collect itself : collecting art globally (and other predicaments) / Archive : ghosts in the archive : exorcism, resurrection and the possibilities of repair