Renate Dohmen is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Open University. She was previously Associate Lecturer in Art History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and taught at the World Arts and Artefacts Programme, British Museum & Birkbeck, University of London, as well as at Goldsmith's, University of London. Her research focuses on questions of the global and visual culture in contemporary and colonial contexts.

• PrologueIntroduction1Transversality, Relational Aesthetics and Modes of Writing2Rirkrit Tiravanija, Relational Aesthetics and Cultural AlterityFaction 1'The Raw, the Cooked and the Common Places' – 'Rikki T' at the Serpentine Gallery, Review by 'Johnny Zucker'Faction 2 Rikki T and Curator C En Route3Voices: Dossier of Texts on Shipibo-Conibo Designs4Making Sense of Shipibo-Conibo DesignsFaction 3 Itinerant Thoughts – London, Paris, Peru and Elsewhere5Voices: Dossier of Texts on Tamil Threshold Designs6Making Sense of Tamil Threshold DesignsFaction 4 Itinerant Thoughts – Paris, London, Tamil Nadu and ElsewhereEpilogue