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BACK TO THE STUDIO!

DO YOU NEED HELP IN ENGLISH FOR YOUR NEW 2025/2026 ARTISTIC PROJECTS?

Applications (residencies, open calls, grant submissions)

Artist and project presentation texts

Writing assistance

Translation and proofreading 

Communication material 

Advice and support for your international projects

Assistance with spoken English 

Individual English coaching 

altairroelants@gmail.com / +33 (7) 89 31 54 56

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PERFORMATIVE READING: WITHIN THE FOLDS OF A LANDSCAPE / DANS LES REPLIS DU PAYSAGE

12TH JUNE 2025 7PM, CALLIGRAMME BOOKSHOP, CAHORS

* Now on sale at Librarie Calligramme (Cahors), Lieu-Commun, Artist run space (Toulouse), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), the Mas-d’Azil tourist office (Ariège) and on Artlinker *

I am thrilled to announce our first performance-reading event of Within the folds of a landscape / Dans les replis du paysage in the Lot, in partnership with Calligramme bookshop in Cahors!

Librairie Calligramme
75 rue du Maréchal Joffre, Cahors 46000
Free admission

Immerse yourself in a unique evening combining poetry and visual art, through a performative reading inspired by the bilingual book  Within the folds of a landscape / Dans les replis du paysage (2024). This work is the result of a collaboration between Toulouse-based visual artist Yvonne Calsou and New Zealand-British writer Altair Roelants, who lives in the Lot. The evening will be bilingual (English and French), offering an immersion into the poetic and artistic universe of this collaboration. After the performance, the artists will be present to exchange with the audience, answer questions and sign copies of the book.

Many thanks to Calligramme for this wonderful literary collaboration in the Lot!

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WITHIN THE FOLDS OF A LANDSCAPE / DANS LES REPLIS DU PAYSAGE

A bilingual book-object in collaboration with visual artist Yvonne Calsou.

* Now on sale at Lieu-Commun, Artist run space (Toulouse), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), the Mas-d’Azil tourist office (Ariège) and on Artlinker *

After two years of a very fruitful collaboration with Toulouse based visual artist Yvonne Calsou, I am thrilled to announce the publication of our bilingual book-object Within the folds of a landscape / Dans les replis du paysage, which was launched with a reading-performance event at Lieu-Commun, Artist run space in Toulouse on the 6th November 2024.

The book combines the twenty individual black and white drawings from Yvonne’s installation Chambre Claire (2021), with twenty texts evoking my memories of New Zealand in response to the artist’s drawn landscapes.

The design conceived by graphic design duo Rovo (Gaëlle Sandré & Sébastien Dégeilh) reimagines our visual-written narrative in the form of the book-object, and the French translation of my texts was done by Jean-François Caro; all of whom I’d like to thank immensely for their hard work and commitment to the realisation of this book.

Also a big thank you to the Région Occitanie, Manuel Pomar & the Lieu-Commun team, and Claus Sauer at Caza d’Oro, for their generous support of our project.

Finally, a very special thank you to Yvonne for the wonderful path that we’ve taken together – Within the folds of a landscape / Dans les replis du paysage.

For more information about the book, please contact me at: altairroelants@gmail.com