Social works: performing art, supporting publics

Prologue : pacing in public

Performance, aesthetics, and support

Quality time : social practice debates in contemporary art

High maintenance : the sanitation aesthetics of Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Staged management : theatricality and institutional critique

Tech support : labor in the global theatres of the Builders Association and Rimini Protokoll

Welfare melancholia : the public works of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset

Unfederated theatre : Paul Chan waiting in New Orleans

Epilogue : dependent care.