Doctrine
The Mechanism
If the Concept is the divine act, the Covenant is the sacrament that performs it on matter. The Mechanism is how the sacrament actually works.
The Covenant
A CoCA artifact is sold with a covenant — a permanent, unseverable condition that binds every future owner. It is not a warranty or a certificate. It is a change in the object's legal and conceptual status that cannot be reversed.
The covenant runs with the object. It cannot be undone. — CoCA Mission Deck, On the Covenant
The Mechanism: the document changes the jurisdiction
The artifact is not transformed by being touched, signed, or displayed. It is transformed by a document. The analogy CoCA uses is baptism: nothing physical changes about the body, yet its standing is permanently altered. So with the artifact — the document changes the jurisdiction. The object now lives under the Church's law, not the market's.
This is why CoCA can say it engineers "conceptual financial instruments" rather than art objects. The instrument is the covenant. The object is merely where the covenant happens to be attached — the readymade context, raised to law.
Psychic real estate
Psychic real estate is the territory CoCA actually claims: the space between thoughts, the mental ground a brand occupies. The Law of the Readymade Context (§1.3.4) names Duchamp's Fountain (1917) as the Ur-Sacrament — the founding proof that placing context above the object is itself the artwork.
The act of placing a urinal in a gallery is industrial accident, plumbing supply, or sacrament — depending on the wall text. The wall text is the description. The description is the liturgy. — The Glossary, Vol. II (Anscombe)