Contingent Agencies – Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres. Artistic Research on Human and Nonhuman Relations - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alex Arteaga (b. 1969, Barcelona) is an artist-researcher whose work integrates aesthetic, phenomenological, and enactive approaches. His practice focuses on embodiment, environments, and forms of aesthetic thinking. Arteaga currently conducts research at the University of the Arts Helsinki.

Nikolaus Gansterer (b. 1974, Vienna) explores the intricate relations between drawing, thinking, and acting. His internationally recognized practice spans performances, exhibitions, and lectures. Gansterer teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is known for pushing the boundaries of expanded drawing and performative notation.

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Contingent Agencies is an artistic research project initiated by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer. It is dedicated to the dynamic relationship between human and nonhuman forces as conditions for the emergence of atmospheres. The cross-disciplinary investigation utilizes practices of notating, reflecting, showing, and sharing that are employed in different media and within different theoretical contexts such as phenomenology, enactivism, and new materialism.
This book, which is supplemented by an extensive online archive, contains numerous research artifacts such as texts, drawings, photo series, diagrams, sound recordings, and video stills and is intended as an invitation to a wider community to participate in this investigation.