L’Âge de la Tortue is an association active in the fields of performing arts and visual arts. It conceives and realizes artistic projects that intersect various disciplines and integrate multidisciplinary contributions.
Entry Category: Artistic Expression and Intervention
Sound Archipelago, Illustrated Conference.
Take thirty years of sound creation by Kristoff K.Roll, an electroacoustic music duo that loves to make the hum of the world heard, break down boundaries, defend the enriching power of creolization, and open the door to dreams… Take a human sciences researcher, Pierre Johan Laffitte, a language specialist: What analysis does he bring to
World is a blues
A collection of migrant stories encountered in various places—mainly France and Greece—written by Jean-Michel Espitalier and set to music by Kristoff K.Roll.
Mexican Logbook
A project combining sound, dance performance, and cultural heritage work, developed by Kristoff K.Roll in collaboration with the La Lleca Collective.
Collective La Lleca, Art Activism and Prison Abolitionism
A feminist collective combining art, activism, and prison abolitionism, fighting to preserve the memory of victims of state violence—military, police, and administrative—in contemporary Mexico.
Kristoff K.Roll
Kristoff K.Roll is an electroacoustic music duo founded over 30 years ago by Carole Rieussec and J.-Kristoff Camps. Their radical, multi-sensory sound poetry is deeply tied to political commitment—for and with today’s most marginalized voices.
Sound Archipelago,. book in two volume
A two-part publication on the duo Kristoff K.Roll. The first part contains four conversations,the second is a praxical and semiotic analysis titled At the Tonal Contact of the World. Sound as Encounter, Language, and Thinking. The works explore the intersections of politics and art, focusing notably on their advocacy for undocumented migrants.
Ilhem Belarbi,Tell Me a Story
Ilhem Belarbi, a PhD candidate at Paris 8, teacher working with migrant children in Germany, videographer, and herself a migrant, tells her cultural, familial, and linguistic story, poetically tracing its origins through an animated film. Her work also spans cooperative pedagogy, didactic tools, and the multilingual inclusion of migrant children.
paloma, Encyclopedia of Migrants
Paloma Fernández Sobrino – artist and co-founder of the association L’Âge de la tortue
Alain Benesty and His Image Box
Alain Benesty – director. A filmmaker who works in full cooperation with his fellow citizens and contemporaries