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Contingent Agencies – Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres
- Editor(s): Alex Arteaga, Nikolaus Gansterer
- Publisher: Hatje Cantz
- Year: 2025
- Size: 22 × 28 cmm
- Number of pages: 440
In collaboration with Alexandra Möllner.
Contingent Agencies is an artistic research project conceived as an inquiry into the subtle, dynamic, complex and enveloping presences that emerge in given situations for those who inhabit them. These presences are denominated with terms such as “ambiances,” “Stimmungen,” “moods,” or even “places” or “figures.” In this project we favor the words “atmospheres” and “environments.”
More particularly, this project investigates the specific ways in which the actualization of the agencies of single components of a situation (from light to animals, from artifacts to sounds, from matter to vegetation, from traffic to color, …) conditions the emergence of these all-over and senseful presences.
