Introduction: Burning ties / Nick Aikens -- Selected works 1953-2017 -- Equality, resistance, hospitality: abstraction and universality in the work of Rasheed Araeen / Michael Newman -- The politics of symmetry / Marcus du Sautoy -- The play of structure: Rasheed Araeen's chakras and related works / Dominic Rahtz -- Sculptor, performer, critic: Rasheed Araeen, circa 1970 / Courtney J. Martin -- Dialectics of modernity and counter-modernity: Rasheed Araeen's cruciform works / Z̲e Sutherland -- In conversation with Rasheed Araeen / Nick Aikens -- Third text: modernism, negritude, and the critique of ethnicity / John Roberts -- Missing history / Kate Fowle -- The revolution will be beautiful / Kaelen Wilson-Goldie -- Imagining mutuality: a reading of Rasheed Araeen's art beyond art / Gene Ray.