Contingent Agencies – Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres. Artistic Research on Human and Nonhuman Relations
Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres
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Beschreibung / Abstract
How do atmospheres emerge? This book explores the dynamic entanglements between humans, environments, and nonhuman forces.
Contingent Agencies is a cross-disciplinary artistic research project initiated by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer that investigates how atmospheres arise from the interplay between human and nonhuman agencies. Drawing from phenomenology, enactivism, and new materialism, the book engages readers in a richly layered process of notation, reflection, showing, and sharing.
Through experimental artistic practices across various media, Contingent Agencies opens new pathways for understanding spatial, embodied, and affective relations. The publication invites not only reflection but also active participation in an expanded, open-ended research community.
What the book offers:
- Innovative models of artistic research grounded in philosophy and embodied practice
- Exploration of human and nonhuman interrelations in the formation of atmospheres
- An open framework that encourages communal inquiry and interdisciplinary engagement
A vital contribution to current debates on artistic research, material agency, and situated knowledge. A must-read for artists, theorists, and practitioners interested in environmental and performative aesthetics.
Alex Arteaga (*1969, Barcelona) is an artist researcher who combines aesthetic, phenomenological, and enactivist research practices through an inquiry into embodiments, environments, and aesthetic thinking. He is currently pursuing his research at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
Nikolaus Gansterer (*1974, Vienna) is an artist who explores the interrelationships between drawing, thinking and acting in his work. He teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is internationally active with performances, exhibitions and lectures.
Beschreibung / Abstract
How do atmospheres emerge? This book explores the dynamic entanglements between humans, environments, and nonhuman forces.
Contingent Agencies is a cross-disciplinary artistic research project initiated by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer that investigates how atmospheres arise from the interplay between human and nonhuman agencies. Drawing from phenomenology, enactivism, and new materialism, the book engages readers in a richly layered process of notation, reflection, showing, and sharing.
Through experimental artistic practices across various media, Contingent Agencies opens new pathways for understanding spatial, embodied, and affective relations. The publication invites not only reflection but also active participation in an expanded, open-ended research community.
What the book offers:
- Innovative models of artistic research grounded in philosophy and embodied practice
- Exploration of human and nonhuman interrelations in the formation of atmospheres
- An open framework that encourages communal inquiry and interdisciplinary engagement
A vital contribution to current debates on artistic research, material agency, and situated knowledge. A must-read for artists, theorists, and practitioners interested in environmental and performative aesthetics.
Alex Arteaga (*1969, Barcelona) is an artist researcher who combines aesthetic, phenomenological, and enactivist research practices through an inquiry into embodiments, environments, and aesthetic thinking. He is currently pursuing his research at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
Nikolaus Gansterer (*1974, Vienna) is an artist who explores the interrelationships between drawing, thinking and acting in his work. He teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is internationally active with performances, exhibitions and lectures.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Front Cover
- Halftitle
- Titlepage
- Table of Contents
- Foreword - Alexander Damianisch
- Foreword - Leena Rouhiainen
- A Contingent Preface - Alex Arteaga
- Introduction - Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer
- Scores and Fact Files for the Practices of Notation and Reflection - Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer
- Notations and Reflections 1—22
- Confluence of Influence, and the Struggle of Differentiation - Emma Cocker
- Landscape, Atmosphere, and Weather-World - Tim Ingold
- Notations and Reflections 23—49
- An Aesthetic Dispositive for (Aesthetic) Reflection - Alex Arteaga
- An Aesthetic Dispositive for (Aesthetic) Reflection: A Short Conceptual Outline - Alex Arteaga
- The function of aesthetic dispositives for (aesthetic) reflection in the research project Contingent Agencies
- On the aesthetic dispositive for (aesthetic) reflection in this book
- Dancing with/in Atmospheres - Paula Kramer
- Coda
- Khôra Touching Sensing Tasting Reflecting Notating Atmospheres - Arno Böhler
- Crossing binarities
- Waving bodies
- Khôra (χώρα): Crossing atmospheres χ with solid particles
- Khôra (χώρα): The taste of atmospheres
- First Matter (πρώτη ὕλη): Materia-in-potentia/virtual matter
- The space of a heart
- The daybreak
- Cut / Notation
- Notation 1a First Matter
- Notation 1b Khôra-Landscape
- Notation 2a Vimarśa-Drawings
- Notation 2b *Vimarśa-Video*
- Notes on Corporal Notations - Sabina Holzer
- Notations and Reflections 50—76
- Contingency, Notation, Reflection—Some Remarks from the Perspective of Scientific Experimentation - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
- Diagramming Theories of Atmosphere - Gerhard Dirmoser
- Questions of F orm / The Formability of Atmospheres—Key Properties
- Atmospheres as Physically Tangible Effect—Vital Impulses
- Expansion Attempts: Ecstasy—Atmosphere—Sense
- Conceptual Fields: Ecstasy—Atmosphere—Sensing
- Fluid Actors: What they do and how they do it
- “Ac-cidents” and Non-necessity. On Contingency - Dieter Mersch
- From actio to passio
- Irreducibility and Incompatibility of Contingencies and Coincidences
- Coincidence and Contingency in Classical Philosophy
- The Consistent Possibility and the Mathematization of the World
- Mathematicized Chance and the Totalization of Probability
- Contingent Agents and the “Haeccitic” Knowledge of the Arts
- Notations and Reflections 77—93
- Field Notes: Figuring Contingent Agencies - Nikolaus Gansterer
- Perceptual Ferment - Erin Manning
- Passages with View on their Legibility - Mika Elo
- Preamble
- Spatial arrangements
- I see what you don’t see
- Threshold
- Notations and Reflections 94—123
- The Atmosphere and the Atmosphere: A Linkage of Meteorology and Metaphor - Andreas Spiegl
- Errant Wanderings/Wonderings—The Materiality of Imagining, the Imaginings of Materiality - Karen Barad
- Electrifying Origins/Flashes of Things to Come
- A striking phenomenon
- Quantum field theory: Nothingness as the scene of wild activities
- Electric interlude: virtual touch
- Lightning: responses to a desiring field
- Back to quantum field theory: a touchy subject
- The body electric
- Quantum phenomena: Entanglements of disparate parts
- Embryonic lightning
- Lightning face of an embryo
- Final section: TransMatterRealities and queer political imaginaries
- Index
- Biographies
- Acknowledgements - Alex Arteaga Nikolaus Gansterer
- Colophon