Tacking and a Tacktical Methodology

preface

acknowledgements

illustrations

note to the reader

introduction

 1 The sea between A and I and the question of privilege

 2 privilege, art and contemporary art

 3 tacking

 4 outline of the chapters

1 “what to do?”

 1 “if you see yourself as part of me and I’m part of you …”

 2 making declarations

 3 moves to innocence

 4 subject position

 5 the double bind is, and as, a political field

2 relinquishing ‘contemporary art’?

 1 how do issues of race sit in contemporary art at the present moment?

 2 whiteness in contemporary art practice

 3 doing differently as a mode of contemporary art

3 the practice of tacking

 1 the seemingly impossible history of string figuring

 2 string figures in contemporary art

 3 the practice of tacking

 4 tacking in practice

 5 the conditions of tacking

4 tacking and tacktical

 1 the etymological relations of tacking

 2 ‘tacktical’ as a neologism

5 what tacking does

 1 techniques of relation

 2 tacking as a technique of relation thinking-with and making-with response-ability

 3 tacking in the borderspace

 4 touch

 5 play

6 tacking as a methodology: a tacktical methodology