Artists surveyed include: Georges Adéagbo, Carl Andre, Janine Antoni, Amy Balkin, Artur Barrio, Helen Chadwick, Mel Chin, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Tessa Farmer, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Romuald Hazoumè, Pierre Huyghe, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Anthony McCall, Teresa Margolles, Robert Morris, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tino Sehgal, Shozo Shimamoto, Santiago Sierra, Robert Smithson, Simon Starling, Paul Thek, Paul Vanouse, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Kara Walker

• Introduction : How to be complicit with materials / Petra Lange-Berndt
• Monika Wagner
• Antony Gormely
• Jiro Yoshihara
• Wolfgang Kemp
• Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
• Georges Didi-Huberman
• Susan Hiller
• Kara Walker
• Esther Leslie
• Shozo Shimamoto
• Dominic Rahtz
• Artur Barrio
• Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm
• Pennina Barnett
• Hilke Wagner
• Betsy Greer
• Romuald Hazoumè
• Natasha Eaton FOLLOW THE MATERIALS. Material / In conversation with James Putnam / Gutai Manifesto / Wood: Figuring problems of material / A thousand plateaux / The order of material: Plasticities, malaises, survivals / 'Truth' and 'Truth to materials' / In conversation with Kara Rooney / THE LIVING FIRE OF LABOUR. Volatile, liquid, crystal / Theory of the curse of the brush / Indifference of material in the work of Carl Andre and Robert Smithson / Manifesto / Theory of artistic work / The alchemist's workshop / House in mud / Knitting for good! / Statement / Chromophobic activism /