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This overview of five core theories of the avant garde (Peter Bürger, Niklas Luhmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Paul Mann, Andreas Reckwitz) provides a provisional framework and toolkit with which to approach Christoph Schlingensief’s artistic works. However, the paper also takes cognisance of the limits of theory in general and its particular shortcomings in terms of Schlingensief’s transgressive art.