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. 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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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 Dancing with/in Atmospheres - Paula Kramer Khôra Touching Sensing Tasting Reflecting Notating Atmospheres - Arno Böhler 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 “Ac-cidents” and Non-necessity. On Contingency - Dieter Mersch Notations and Reflections 77—93 Field Notes: Figuring Contingent Agencies - Nikolaus Gansterer Perceptual Ferment - Erin Manning Passages with View on their Legibility - Mika Elo 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 Index Biographies Acknowledgements - Alex Arteaga Nikolaus Gansterer Colophon Back Cover