preface acknowledgements illustrations note to the reader introduction 1 The sea between A and I and the question of privilege 2 privilege, art and contemporary art 3 tacking 4 outline of the chapters1 "what to do?" 1 "if you see yourself as part of me and I'm part of you ." 2 making declarations 3 moves to innocence 4 subject position 5 the double bind is, and as, a political field2 relinquishing 'contemporary art'? 1 how do issues of race sit in contemporary art at the present moment? 2 whiteness in contemporary art practice 3 doing differently as a mode of contemporary art3 the practice of tacking 1 the seemingly impossible history of string figuring 2 string figures in contemporary art 3 the practice of tacking 4 tacking in practice 5 the conditions of tacking4 tacking and tacktical 1 the etymological relations of tacking 2 'tacktical' as a neologism5 what tacking does 1 techniques of relation 2 tacking as a technique of relation thinking-with and making-with response-ability 3 tacking in the borderspace 4 touch 5 play6 tacking as a methodology: a tacktical methodology.