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.