Articles | Transaesthetic Writings. Conversation with Alexandre Castant – in Turbulences Vidéo #110

Articles | Transaesthetic Writings. Conversation with Alexandre Castant – in Turbulences Vidéo #110

Transaesthetic Writings. Conversation with Alexandre Castant | par Philippe Franck

For over twenty years, Alexandre Castant has developed a refined and demanding critical work, exploring the world of contemporary images (from La photographie dans l’œil des passages, 2004 to Ecrans de neige – photographs, texts, images, 2014). ) as singular sounds (from Sonic Planets – radio, art, cinema 2007 to Arts Sonores – son et arts contemporains, 2017)…

Read more in Turbulences Vidéo #110 (french)

Turbulences Vidéo #110

Transcultures is pleased to participate via articles and interviews written by several of its collaborators in the quarterly review Turbulences Vidéo, which, managed by Vidéoformes (Clermont-Ferrand/FR) since 1993, deals with current art and moving images in general, video art and digital cultures in particular.

In this issue 110 of Turbulences Vidéo (featuring a focus on Italian performer and intermedia artist Francesca Fini, Philippe Franck talks with the French art critic and writer Alexandre Castant about his transaesthetic vision and his last two books (Mort d’Athanase Shurail, his first published fiction and Visions de Mandiargue – modernité, avant-garde, expériences (in collaboration with Iwona Torkaska-Castant) and delivers a column on the latest -fourth – issue of the Celebrity Cafe review (featuring texts by William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Raoul Hausmann, Augusto & Haroldo de Campos, Liliane Lijn, Philippe Boisnard, Eduardo Kac…) initiated by Jacques Donguy, Sarah Cassenti ad Jean-François Bory.