Introduction: Alan Cruickshank Part One: Tribulations of Global Art 1. From Participatory Art to Participatory Criticism: The Big Noise 2. Drained and Confused: Insistent Voice on "The Contemporary" 3. Touching Reality 4. They don't make art like they used to: Late last year in the Wall Street Journal Camille Paglia mounted a frontal onslaught on contemporary art 5. A dish served lukewarm 6. Is there such a thing as global curating? 7. Transorientalism and the pavilion attitude to attitude to race and identity 8.

The Australia Effect 9. Spectres of Video: The Ends of Video Art 10. Art and the loss of vision 11. Metaresistance Part Two: The Art Institutions 12. The New textuality for the Visual Arts: Entrenchment in the Academy 13. The Sordid Fraud of Outsider Art 14. Art is not Research 15. Sanitised Situationism Part Three: Asia-Pacific Perspectives on the Biennale 16.

Regionality and Nationality 17. Overdressed for the Prom 18. Be Careful What You Wish For 19. C'mon let's stick together. On collaboration, inclusion and consonance in the 18th Biennale of Sydney 20. Art Apartheid in the South Pacific 21. 'Biennale Baroque' Unveiling the 17th Biennale of Sydney 22. Sex, revolution and circumlocution Part Four: Art and Indigeneity 23.

Who owns dots? Or, spirituality for the highest bidder, or, can you buy aura? 24. In Whose House? Craig Walsh Embedded' 25. Aboriginal Art Diagnostic Bibliography Index.