Practice / edited by Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The promise of practice / Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine -- THINKING, MAKING AND DOING. The baby and the milk, or proof of life, 1956 / Shiraga Kazuo -- The general nature of African art, 1956 / Léopold Sédar Senghor -- Action, 1958 / Hannah Arendt -- The concept of practice: Dialogue, 1956 / Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- Making a salad, 1998 / David T. Doris -- To the Wesleyan people, 1966 / Yoko Ono -- To art (reg. intrans. v.), 1975 / Adrian Piper -- What is practice?, 1975 / Louis Althusser -- The worldwide experience, 1978 / Henri Lefebvre -- Rosendale, 1980 / Raivo Puusemp -- In conversation with Kate Horsfield, 1980 / Joseph Beuys -- The structuring of the self, 1980 / Lygia Clark -- Lygia Clark and the art/clinic hybrid, 1996 / Suely Rolnik -- Poiesis and praxis, 1994 / Giorgio Agamben -- Wana-na-wang-ong, 1994 / Florene Belmore -- cloud-net, 1998 / Cecilia Vicuña -- The loneliness of the project, 2002 / Boris Groys -- From work to practice, 2010 / Andrea Phillips -- Welcome to yourspace, 2013 / Lane Relyea -- Van Gogh on demand, 2013 / Winnie Won Yin Wong --

COLLECTIVE ACTION. Theses on Feuerbach, 1845 / Karl Marx -- Art in the revolution and the revolution in art, 1923 / Sergei Tret'iakov -- Surrealism: The last snapshot of the European intelligentsia, 1929 / Walter Benjamin -- On national culture, 1959 / Frantz Fanon -- Questionnaire, 1964 / The Situationist International -- A magic rite to exorcize the spirits of murder, violence & creephood from the Pentagon, 1967 / Ed Sanders -- Argentine subversive art, 1970 / Pablo Suárez and Commission of Artistic Action of the Argentine CGT -- On Black art, 1970 / Maulana Karenga -- Art as form of reality, 1969 / Herbert Marcuse -- Womanhouse, 1972 / Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro -- A proposal for learning to get things off our chests: Behaviour, discipline and our project, 1980 / Tim Rollins -- Picture a coalition, 1987 / Gregg Bordowitz -- The production of social space as artwork, 2007 / Okwui Enwezor -- The institutionalization of friendship, 1998 / Viktor Misiano -- 16Beavergroup, 2004 / Ayreen Anastas -- Collectivism now, 2007 / Blake Stimson and Greg Sholette -- We need a popular discipline: In conversation with Filippo Del Lucchese and Jason Smith, 2007 / Alain Badiou -- Ecoaesthetics: Art beyond art, 2008 / Rasheed Araeen -- When the world spirit touches you, don't think you can walk away unscathed, 2013 / Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -- Embedded: In conversation with Jacqueline Stewart, 2014 / Theaster Gates -- Michael Brown, 2015 / Fred Moten and Stefano Harney --

FORMS OF REPETITION. Techniques of the body, 1934 / Marcel Mauss -- Duchamp's chess games, 1969 / Guido Cappello -- Professional rules, 1997 / Robert Morris -- Philosophical investigations, 1953 / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Practising Trio A, 2012 / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Sonic meditations, 1974 / Pauline Oliveros -- In conversation with Terry Smith, 1995 / Mary Kelly -- Art as therapy, 1977/2000 / Linda M. Montano -- Belief and the body, 1980 / Pierre Bourdieu -- The tactics of practice, 1980 / Michael de Certeau -- Train as book: On Rammellzee, 1983 / Edit deAk -- Body assemblage: In conversation with Félix Guattari, 1985 / Min Tanaka -- From parody to politics, 1990 / Judith Butler -- Redressing the pained body: Towards a theory of practice, 1997 / Saidiya Hartman -- Architectural body, 2002 / Madeline Gins and Arakawa -- Saint Sebastian (Works in progress), 2001 / Fiona Tan -- Exercises and misexercises: The critique of repetition, 2009 / Peter Sloterdijk -- Becoming T, 2008 / Paul B. Preciado -- An ecology of practices, 2005 / Isabelle Stengers -- Tjanpi desert weavers, 2016 / Jennifer Biddle -- Political plastic, 2016 / Eyal Weizman --

DISCIPLINE(S). The secret of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1916 / Mohandas Gandhi -- Programme (Relative to Acéphale), 1936 / Georges Bataille -- Decreation, 1947 / Simone Weil -- Miserable miracle, 1955 / Henri Michaux -- Manifesto - Auto-destructive art, 1960 / Gustav Metzger -- Remembering Yoko Ono's Cut Piece, 2003 / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Notes, 1964-66 / Gerhard Richter -- Practice, 1974 / Julia Kristeva -- Rhythm 2, 1974 / Marina Abramovic -- In conversation with Thomas McEvilley, 1998 / Marina Abramovic -- In conversation with Adrian Heathfield, 2009 / Tehching Hsieh -- On collaboration with Joseph Beuys: In conversation with Louwrien Wijers, 1982 / The Dalai Lama -- Shamanism, 1987 / Michael Taussig -- The ethics of the concern for the self: In conversation with Concordia, 1984 / Michel Foucault -- Prosthetics, robotics and remote existence: Post-evolutionary strategies, 1991 / Stelarc -- As long as I'm walking, 1992 / Francis Alÿs -- Against ordinary language, 1992 / Kathy Acker -- Difficulty's audience, 2013 / Jennifer Doyle -- Politics of piety, 2005 / Saba Mahmood -- On intuition, 2006 / Carolee Schneemann -- Figuration and failure, pedagogy and performance: Reflections three years later, 2011 / Aliza Shvarts -- In conversation with Vincent Simon, 2012 / AA Bronson -- Sex without optimism, 2014 / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman - Art of the stateless state, 2014 / Jonas Staal -- Kader Attia - A glissantian reading, 2014 / Manthia Diawara.

'Practice' is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists' descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads. Reframing the question of practice offers new ways of reading the history of art and of evaluating particular forms of practice-based art.