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BOOK LAUNCH: CONTINGENT AGENCIES – INQUIRING INTO THE EMERGENCE OF ATMOSPHERES Nikolaus Gansterer, Alex Arteaga in conversation with invited authors Arno Boehler, Alexander Damianisch, Gerhard Dirmoser, Sabina Holzer, Andreas Spiegl at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, at the APL Angewandte Performance Laboratory, Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (former PostSparKasse), mezzanine floor, Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria. 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. The present book published by Hatje Cantz Berlin, 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 into more than human agencies. 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. With contributions by Alex Arteaga, Karen Barad, Arno Boehler, Emma Cocker, Alexander Damianisch, Gerhard Dirmoser, Debris Facility, Mika Elo, Nikolaus Gansterer, Rosie Isaac, Sabina Holzer, Tim Ingold, Paula Kramer, Erin Manning, Dieter Mersch, Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Leena Rouhiainen, Andreas Spiegl. Edited by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer.