Contingent Agencies : Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres

Alex Artega; Karen Barad; Arno Boehler; Emma Cocker; Alexander Damianisch; Gerhard Dirmoser; Mika Elo; Debris Facility; Nikolaus Gansterer; Sabina Holzer; Tim Ingold; Rosie Isaac; Paula Kramer; Erin Manning; Dieter Mersch; Hans-Joerg Rheinberger; Leena Rouhiainen; Andreas Spiegl

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Title (eng)

Contingent Agencies

Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres

Editor

Nikolaus Gansterer

Alex Arteaga

University of the Arts Helsinki

Author

Alex Artega

University of the Arts Helsinki

Karen Barad

University of California at Santa Cruz

Arno Boehler

University of Vienna

Emma Cocker

Nottingham Trent University

Alexander Damianisch

University of Applied Arts Vienna

Gerhard Dirmoser

University of Art and Design Linz

Mika Elo

University of the Arts Helsinki

Debris Facility

Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne

Nikolaus Gansterer

University of Applied Arts Vienna

Sabina Holzer

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Tim Ingold

University of Aberdeen

Rosie Isaac

Monash University Melbourne

Paula Kramer

University of the Arts Helsinki

Erin Manning

Concordia University Montreal

Dieter Mersch

Zurich University of the Arts

Hans-Joerg Rheinberger

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin

Leena Rouhiainen

University of the Arts Helsinki

Andreas Spiegl

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Designer

Marie Artaker

Alexandra Moellner

Description (eng)

How do atmospheres – those subtle, impermanent, non-objectified and surrounding yet intimately affective presences – come to be? What forces enable and constrain their appearance, and how do they relate to one another? How to research these complex processes in a non-reductive way? Contingent Agencies, an artistic research project initiated by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer, explores the dynamic relationship between human and non-human agencies as enabling conditions for the emergence of atmospheres. This cross-disciplinary investigation is conducted through multimodal practices of notation, reflection, showing, and sharing realized in diverse media within different theoretical frameworks such as phenomenology, enactivism, and new materialism. A group of internationally renowned authors explores the emergence of atmospheres through diverse perspectives, including art, artistic research, western and non-western philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and quantum physics. The present book, complemented by an extensive online archive, features multiple research artifacts–including texts, drawings, photo series, diagrams, sound recordings, and video stills – as an invitation for a wider community to join the inquiry.

Keywords (eng)

artistic researchagencyatmosphereclimatecontingenycross-disciplinaritydrawingecologyemergenceenactivismenvironmentmethodnotationphenomenonpracticereflectionresonancetransimmanence

Subject (eng)

ÖFOS 2012 -- 604 -- Arts

Subject (eng)

ÖFOS 2012 -- 603114 -- Philosophy of mind

Subject (eng)

ÖFOS 2012 -- 603112 -- Phenomenology

Subject (eng)

ÖFOS 2012 -- 103024 -- Quantum field theory

Subject (eng)

ÖFOS 2012 -- 504 -- Sociology

Subject (eng)

ÖFOS 2012 -- 605001 -- History of humanities

Subject (eng)

ÖFOS 2012 -- 604020 -- Art theory

Subject (eng)

ÖFOS 2012 -- 105205 -- Climate change

Type (eng)

book

Language

English [eng]

Persistent identifier

https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/o:74284

Project

Titel (eng)

Contingent Agencies

Project DOI

10.55776/AR546

Funder (eng)

FWF AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FUND

Project Description (eng)

Contingent Agencies is an artistic research project (funded by PEEK/FWF) conceived as an inquiry into atmospheres — the subtle, dynamic, complex, and enveloping presences that emerge in given situations for those who inhabit them. More particularly, this project investigates the specific ways in which the agencies of single components of a situation (from light to animals, artifacts to sounds, matter to vegetation, traffic to color …) condition the emergence of these all-over and senseful presences.

Start date

2019

End date

2025

Project Homepage

https://contingentagencies.uni-ak.ac.at/

License

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International

Represented object

Production company

Gugler Print

Production place