Xavier Douroux
Foreword
AN INTRODUCTION
Estelle Zhong Mengual
Branches from the Same Tree
1/ COMMON PROBLEMS, DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS
Karin Harrasser
As Society. The Production of Art and New Self-Relations
Alistair Hudson
An Extended Lecture on Tree Twigs: Towards an Ecology of Aesthetics
Nato Thompson
Articulations of Artist-initiated Organizations
2/ WHEN THE ARTIST INVITES PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE
Julia Robinson
Performance, Performativity, Participation: Toward a Genealogy of “Applied Art”
Margit Rosen
Not an Exercise. Remarks on GRAV and the
New Patrons' Protocol
Patricia Falguières
Soundings in the Authority of Art: the Conceptual Turn
Boris Groys
The Aesthetic Welfare
Paul O'Neill
The
Curatorial Constellation, Durational Public Art, Cohabitational Time and Attentiveness
3/ WHEN PEOPLE INVITE THE ARTIST TO PARTICIPATE
Bruno Latour/Joseph Leo Koerner
An Informal Conversation on Art Commissions throughout History
Vinciane Despret
Those Who Persist. The New Patrons' Commission in Caudry
Émilie Hache
Responding to a Commission. A Moral and Political Problem
Cameron Cartiere
Beyond
Institutional Critique: Artists as a Civic Workforce
Helmut Draxler
Volition's Drift. A Theory of Mediation
4/ REINVENTING ART AS EXPERIENCES OF DEMOCRACY
Isabelle Stengers
“Because now I would feel authorized to do it…”
Malcolm Miles
Outside the Crystal Dome: unbinding art from global capital
Frédéric Lordon
Multitudes of Art
Dorian Astor
The New Patrons or Society's Auto-affection
Mary Jane Jacob
Thinking through Dewey
AFTERWORD
Baptiste Morizot/
Estelle Zhong Mengual
For an Aesthetics of Encounter. Art and Individuation
APPENDIX
François Hers
The New Patrons' Protocol
About the contributors
