Introduction - Simon LEUNG, 梁碩恩, Zoya KOCUR

Part I: Contemporary Art Practices and Models

1 The Intellectual Field: A World Apart (1990)

- Pierre BOURDIEU

2 When Form Has Become Attitude - And Beyond (1994)

- Thierry DE DUVE

3 One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity (1997)

- Miwon KWON

4 The Curator's Moment (1998)

- Michael BRENSON

5 How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction (1994)

- Andrea FRASER

6 Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially-Engaged Art (2004)

- Grant H. KESTER

7 "yBa" as Critique: The Socio-Political Inferences of the Mediated Identity of Recent British Art (1997)

- James GAYWOOD

8 Video Projection: The Space Between Screens (2004)

- Liz KOTZ

Part II: Culture/Identities/Political Fields

9 The War on Culture (1990)

- Carole S. VANCE

10 Feminist Fundamentalism: Women Against Images (1993)

- Carole S. VANCE

11 AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (1987)

- Douglas CRIMP

12 Architecture of the Evicted (1990)

- Rosalyn DEUTSCHE

13 Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion (1993)

- Judith BUTLER

14 Cornered: A Video Installation Project (1992)

- Adrian PIPER

15 The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar Identity Politics at the Whitney Biennial (1993)

- Charles A. WRIGHT Jr.

16 Haunted TV (1992)

- Avital RONELL

Part III: Postcolonial Critiques

17 The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism (1992)

- Gerardo MOSQUERA

18 In the "Heart of Darkness" (1993)

- Olu OGUIBE

19 The Syncretic Turn: Cross-Cultural Practices in the Age of Multiculturalism (1996)

- Jean FISHER

20 Authenticity, Reflexivity, and Spectacle: or, the Rise of New Asia is not the End of the World (2004)

- LEE Weng Choy, 李永財

21 All-Owning Spectatorship (1991)

- TRINH T. Minh Ha

Part IV: Rethinking Aesthetics

22 A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 (1989)

- Benjamin H.D. BUCHLOH

23 Notes on Surface: Towards a Genealogy of Flatness (2000)

- David JOSELIT

24 Ruins, Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/Postmodern (1998)

- WU Hung, 巫鴻

25 Function and Field: Demarcating Conceptual Practices (2004)

- Nana LAST

26 1989

- Juli CARSON

Part V: Theories after Postmodernism

27 Postmodernism and Periphery (1987)

- Nelly RICHARD

28 Looking for Trouble (1991)

- Kobena MERCER

29 Repossessing Popular Culture (1993)

- Laura KIPNIS

30 The Lightness of Theory (1993)

- John RAJCHMAN

31 Informe without Conclusion (1996)

- Rosalind KRAUSS

32 The Database (2001)

- Lev MANOVICH