Introduction 
& Contributions (International publications & symposiums)

Alexandre Castant is a French essayist, art critic and writer.

As an essayist, his books explore the aesthetic and poetic relationships between the arts, notably the connections between sound arts and visual arts.

Holder of a PhD in aesthetics from the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), he teaches Aesthetics and the History of the Contemporary Arts at the National School of Art (ENSA) in Bourges (France). In addition to his teaching, he runs a sound creation workshop, The Sound Workshop of Aesthetics :
http://ateliersonoredesthetique.ensa-bourges.fr

He is also an art critic and a member of the International Association of Art Critics.

As a writer, he has written novels, short stories, poetry and opera librettos.

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He has taken part in the following international publications & symposiums :

2025

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
Preface : « Photographic Sculptures » in
Marios Fournaris, Perama je me souviens,
Faber – BSN Press

SEOUL, KOREA
Broadcast of Station#23 of L’Atelier sonore d’esthétique :
A Tribute to Philippe Franck (1963-2025) in Korea :
Paradise 24/24, Kote Space, Seoul, 19 April

2024

BRUSSELS BELGIUM
Articles & Interviews for the online catalogue of the Biennial « URBAN NATURE »
ARS MUSICA International Contemporary Music Festival

BRUSSELS BELGIUM
« Correspondences in the labyrinth of sounds », an essay written by A. C. & Philippe Franck
La Lettre Volée

2023

QUÉBEC CANADA
Article : « Dominique Vermeesch, Listening to The Never Seen »
Inter, art actuel, n° 142

BRUSSELS BELGIUM
Operatic libretto : Micromegas
Next Opera Days (ARS MUSICA International Contemporary Music Bienalle)

2022

BRUSSELS BELGIUM
Articles & Interviews for the online catalogue of the Biennial « BIG SCIENCE »
ARS MUSICA International Contemporary Music Festival

QUÉBEC CANADA
Article : « Paradise Now, Soundtracks for JFO »
Inter, art actuel, n° 140

BRUSSELS BELGIUM
Article : « New Voices, New Ways ? The Voice as a Bridge – Interview with Bruno Letort »
L’Art même, n° 86

2021

BRUSSELS BELGIUM
Article : « Radio in Art »
L’Art même, n° 85

BRUSSELS BELGIUM
Press release : Marie-Jo Lafontaine « Every angel is terrifying »
Belgian Gallery, Brussels

BRUSSELS & KÖLN BELGIUM & GERMANY
Foreword : Marie-Jo Lafontaine & Véronique Bergen « Every angel is terrifying »
La Lettre volée, Brussels
Lembertz, Brussels & Hanstein Verlag, Köln

2020

LUXEMBOURG
Article : « Written by Water by Marco Godinho »
Arts et Lettres, n° 6

BRUSSELS BELGIUM 
Exhibition : « The Sound Workshop of Aesthetics » 
Festival City Sonic – Royal Academy of Fine Arts

2019 

LUXEMBOURG 
Lecture : « The Meaning of Photography » 
University of Luxembourg 

BRUSSELS BELGIUM 
Lecture : « Sound and Contemporary Art » 
Royal Academy of Fine Arts

2018 

SHANGHAI CHINA 
Lecture : « Audio Diary, Radiophonics, Arts, Cinema » 
XiYiTang/École offshore 

JINAN CHINA 
Workshop : « How to make pictures out of sounds, voices, music and noise ? » 
Shandong University of Arts 

JINAN CHINA 
Lecture : « The Crossing : Photography, Cinema, Sound Art » 
Shandong University of Arts

SAINT PETERSBURG RUSSIA 
Lecture : « Aesthetics of Speakers in Contemporary Art » 
Alexandrinsky Theatre

SAINT PETERSBURG RUSSIA 
Lecture : « Sound Arts » 
State Russian Museum

2017 

CHARLEROI BELGIUM 
Lecture : « Audio Art, Radio and Archives » 
Library PointCulture

2016 

ATHENS GREECE 
Article : « Demesthene Agrafiotis (poet, photographer, philosopher) » 
VAKXIKON.GR 

MONS BELGIUM 
Lecture : « A History of Sound Art » 
Academy of Arts

2015

HEIDELBERG-BERLIN GERMANY 
Preface : « Mirages by Tami Amit » in Tami Amit, Insomnia, Kehrer Verlag 

MONS BELGIUM 
Exhibition : « The Sound Workshop of Aesthetics » 
Festival City Sonic 

HONG KONG CHINA 
Exhibition : « The Sound Workshop of Aesthetics » 
The French May – Hong Kong Arts Center 

BRUSSELS BELGIUM
Article : « In the Mons Maze… City Sonic, A Sound History of the 21st Century » 
in City Sonic, Sound Arts in the City, Edited by Philippe Franck, 
La Lettre Volée 

2014 

SHANGHAI CHINA 
Workshop : « Sound Map of a City » 
SIVA/Shanghai Institute of Visual Art 

SHANGHAI CHINA 
Lecture : « A History of Sound Art » 
ECNU/East China Normal University 

SHANGHAI CHINA 
Lecture & Workshop : « Sound Map of a City » 
XiYiTang/École offshore 

2013 

MONS BELGIUM 
Exhibition : « The Sound Workshop of Aesthetics » 
Festival City Sonic 

2012

MONTREAL CANADA 
Lecture : « The Story of Sounds of the Wind » 
UQÀM – UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC IN MONTREAL 

MONTREAL CANADA 
Lecture : « Passages (images, texts, sounds), the Migrations of Listening » 
UQÀM – UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC IN MONTREAL 

MONS BELGIUM 
Exhibition : « The Sound Workshop of Aesthetics » 
Festival City Sonic 

BASEL SWITZERLAND 
Lecture : « Icons of Art. Artist Talk with Marie-Jo Lafontaine » 
Art-Basel, Rolls-Royce Artist Talks 

ÜBERLINGEN GERMANY 
Preface : « The Happy Melancholy of the Future – Flowers, Images, Fictions »
in Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Alice in Wonderland, Villa Larix 

2011 

MONS BELGIUM 
Exhibition : « The Sound Workshop of Aesthetics » 
Festival City Sonic 

BRUGES BELGIUM 
Preface : « Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Dance The World ! »,
J. P. De-Paepe Publisher 

LONDON ENGLAND 
Article : « The Openness of Possibilities : Visual Freedom and Radio Listening »,
Radiauteur, Goldsmiths University, n° 1 

BRUSSELS BELGIUM 
Preface : « Marie-Jo Lafontaine », Forum, n° 186 

2010 

LUXEMBOURG 
Lecture : « Planets of sounds, new languages ? »
Museum of Modern Art Grand-Duc Jean – MUDAM 

POZNAN POLAND 
Article : « Marie-Jo Lafontaine : Sound space and fictional space in The World Starts Every Minute »,
Mediations Biennial Poznan 

BRUSSELS BELGIUM 
Article : « Interview with Anne-Laure Chamboissier and Philippe Franck : The Sound Poetry and its Exhibition»,
L’Art même, n° 48 

GENEVA SWITZERLAND 
Article : « Christian Marclay : sound, music and visual arts (about Up and Out) »,
Retour d’y Voir, n° 3/4, MAMCO Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 

PORTO PORTUGAL 
Article : « Cornelius Cardew and the Freedom of Listening : An Interview with L. Gablier,
D. Inkster and J.-J. Palix»,
Galeria da Culturgest – Fundaçao Caixa Geral de Depositos 

2009

LE LOCLE SWITZERLAND 
Lecture : « Planets of Sounds » 
Museum of Fine Arts 

LE LOCLE SWITZERLAND 
Preface : « Alexandre Joly’s Soundscapes » 
Museum of Fine Arts Press 

BRUSSELS BELGIUM 
Preface : « Thinking the World » 
French Ambassade/Monografik Publisher 

2008 

TAIPEI TAIWAN 
Lecture : « Contemporary Art in France», 
National University of the Arts – School of Fine Arts 

MONS BELGIUM 
Exhibition : « The Sound Workshop of Aesthetics » 
Festival City Sonic

2007

PUZIH TAIWAN 
Exhibition : « The Sound Workshop of Aesthetics » 
Toko University 

WARSAW POLAND 
Article : « The Question of Photography » 
Camera Obscura, n° 1 

AARHUS DENMARK 
Text : « The utopia of images in André Pieyre de Mandiargues’s Works » 
Aarhus University Press 

2006

MONTREAL CANADA 
Editorial Team : « Gilles Deleuze’s cinema » 
CINéMAS — University of Montréal, vol. 16/n° 2-3 

BERLIN GERMANY 
Article : « Images, sounds, texts : Translation of signs » 
http://www.transversale.org 

BRUSSELS BELGIUM 
Article : « Interview with Philippe Franck : The Sounds of Cities » 
L’Art même, n° 31 

2004

AARHUS DENMARK 
Lecture : « André Pieyre de Mandiargues, the utopia of images as a challenge to literature »
Language, Literature and Cultural Institute — Department of Classical and Roman Studies

2003 
LECCO ITALY 
Article : « New Medias : Words, Bodies and Digital Images » :
Karenina.it Experimental

2002 

LUXEMBOURG 
Lecture : « The Idea of Photography » 
The University of Luxembourg 

WARSAW POLAND 
Article : « The Question of Photography » 
Fotografia, n° 9 

1999

THESSALONIKI GREECE 
Preface : « Mirror, Process, Medias, Photography as a Critical Art » 
Museum of Contemporary Art Press 

1998

VILNIUS LITHUANIA 
Lecture : « Contemporary Photography in France » 
School of Fine Arts 

BERLIN GERMANY 
Text : « Mandiargues as a Critical Art » 
Lendemains — The Technical University of Berlin, n° 91-92 

NAMUR BELGIUM 
Preface : « Correspondences : Jean-Noël Laszlo and Michel Butor »,
Lecture Hall

THESSALONIKI GREECE 
Article : « Bernard Guillot : Back to New York » 
Camera obscura, Summer, n° 38 

GENEVA SWITZERLAND 
Article : « Jacques Bélat : Backward Images »,
Sepia

1997 

LUXEMBOURG 
Lecture : « Aesthetics of Sounds » 
The University of Luxembourg 

LUXEMBOURG 
Preface : « Immaterial Images, Sounds, Worlds… Or What We Have Lost (text written with Christian Gattinoni) » 
Casino — Forum for Contemporary Art Press 

TALLINN ESTONIA 
Preface : « The Power of Images : The Mutation of War ? » 
Biennial of Saaremaa Press 

VIENNA-ATHENS, AUSTRIA-GREECE 
Article : « What is a Citizenship ? » 
Odyssee Today Press 

1996 

VEVEY SWITZERLAND 
Member of the Jury of the Diploma 
High School of Photography 

THESSALONIKI GREECE 
Exhibition & Preface : « Motionless Variety » 
French Institut 

1995 

THESSALONIKI GREECE 
Lecture : « Olga Kaloussi’s Polaroïd Photographs between Photographs and Fine Arts » 
Galery Zita Mi 

THESSALONIKI GREECE 
Preface : « Olga Kaloussi : The Image in flight » 
Schema & Chroma Publisher 

BERLIN GERMANY 
Text : « André Pieyre de Mandiargues’s view and The Photography » 
Lendemains — The Technical University of Berlin, Spring, n° 77 

MADRID SPAIN 
Article : « Emptiness in Translation »,
Fotografias, n° 10 

1993 

ALMERIA SPAIN 
Lecture : « André Pieyre de Mandiargues’s Photographic Vision » 
The Complutense University of Madrid 

THESSALONIKI GREECE 
Preface : « Contract of a Broken Picture » 
EnTOMO Publisher 

TURIN ITALY 
Preface : « Bernard Plossu : Visions of the South with Children » 
Fifth International Biennial of Photography 

1992 

THESSALONIKI GREECE 
Lecture : « Barcelona in La Marge by André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Photographs of Manel Esclusa and Joan Fontcuberta » 
The Aristotle University

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Visual : A. C., « Photographic sculptures (What remains of you) » in Perama I remember,
with texts by Barbara Polla and Jean-Philippe Rossignol, Geneva : Faber – BSN Press.