Choreographic attempts on social ecology in translation: 

worlding in multilingual landscapes

linguistic hospitality as a 

planetary thinking practice 

Tatjana Christelbauer  works at the interface of arts, sciences and international relations, in the global sustainable development process.

Croatian born, Austrian resident, European spirit, world traveler, planetary thinker ...

Tatjana is experienced in intercultural education, art-based research, and education, as an employed consultant and lecturer by the Lower Austrian Government for 28 years, by art institutions and civil society organizations.

She received her MA degree in sociology (gender studies, international politics) with the thesis on narrative identity performance in the literary field and dance, at the Rosa Mayreder College Vienna in 2010.

She graduated in Museum pedagogy (2018 KPH Krems) with a Thesis on Hundertwasser Art and ecological activism in the sustainability discourse. 2019 she completed her study in Public Relations and Media Management at the Vienna Academy of Economics (AMC), with a thesis on Digital media use in education. In 2020, she has also completed a Professional Diploma course on Corporate health with the thesis on Corporate health 2030 in kindergarten- mode and Academic certified courses in Training, Coaching, Fitness and Nutrition with training programs “Dance ~ Well” and “KostbArt”- creations of healthy meals with blog series on sustainable food at the AMC Academy. 

Her artistic practice in dance arts is close to modern realism and her conceptual art_science projects are grounded in cognitive humanities and international relations.

Tatjana has completed Professional Intensive Programmes at Martha Graham Contemporary Dance School in NYC (2004-2012) and attended academic courses in fine arts, design, literature, linguistics at diverse universities in Vienna and NYC. 

Her art_science installations and performance lectures were held in a variety of venues, including the ETH University of Zürich (Art&Sci 2019 “Corpus Callosum2030), Venice art fair, BORDERS Festival (Fragmented identity, linguistic landscapes” 2020), Vienna Amerling Gallery (2002-2006 Coppélia´s book, Calmant1&2, Moving letters …), Vienna Institute Francais (CALMANT. Rosa … 2008) a.o.

Tatjana´s work with multimedia fine art on the interface with political science and social ecology enables a critical look at the intersectionality of categories (social), epistemologies (embodied knowledge), and practices (lifearts acts), finding a link between migration, disorder, and art space as exile for reconstruction, deconstruction, and renewal of the self in diverse contexts.

Tatjana´s broad education also includes years of studying Neurolinguistics, applied physics (thermodynamics, aerodynamics), Philosophy, Theology (Holy Women Scriptures), symbolical interactionism (art-based research, environmental impact on human relations.

Advocacy, sensorial attachment

With a focus on peaceful relations among humans, as well as among human world-and nature, Tatjana advocates for human rights, in particular women/children rights, through educational workshops on ethics&compliance in education, rights & responsibilities through opportunities for engagement,  situating her ethical compass in the UN Agenda 2030 and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for peace building. Such an approach and long-term engagement places her transdisciplinary work on interface of contemporary Arts, Sciences and Diplomacy scene in Austria, Europe and worldwide

Media

Tatjana´s work is always covered with media promotion by institutions and organisers of the events in which she is invited as a guest speaker, keynote-speaker, artist, or lecturer to participate.

She also promotes her activities via social media and exclusively advocates for art-based education for the development of the eco-social awareness and communicational skills to prevent all forms of violence, destruction and crime against people, all leaving species and nature.

Toward 2030

Tatjana initiated, organised and took part in conferences, public debates and academic courses on arts as a tool for societal challenges-oriented cultural diplomacy2030 (in particular SDG 4.7, SDG5, SDG8), spotlighting on the role of art practices for advocacy of gender-related issues, prevention of all forms of violence in international relations, at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Berlin, Vienna Diplomatic Academy, United Nations Vienna, a.o institutions, thematising the Cultural Diplomacy paradigm shift toward the UN Agenda2030 and global sustainable development on international conferences public debates and panels, lectures and workshops on the issues of gender&diversity, environmental and social policies.

Tatjana is a board member of several Austrian non-profit organisations and communities, such as IG Kultur, UN Women Austria, Society for Artistic Research SAR.

Feminist art approach

Considering herself from the third wave feminist perspective as a biologically born white women, middle class, familiar background in Christianity, war-caused migrant single mother, embodied knowledge-and emotional attachment-and choice-based hetero-lifestyle, Tatjana thematises in her art_science works in a particularly authentic way– by experience, self-reflection, by intuition, as well as by re-constructing circumstances and situating herself in the plural epistemic  interspace of the Cyber Feminism , illuminating “what matters” when women is in a struggle, with an intersectional (Crenshaw) approach as following:

1. Ethnicity: why it matters and how to perform with …

2. Gender: roles, lifestyles, life arts, rights and opportunities

3. Political/religious orientation/clubs/membership: how it matters and how not, how to move with as a non-aligned

4. Social class:  how to “mind the gap”

5. Race: matters, at all continents and within all societies, more or less .. How to painT it with more colours?

6. Education-Carriers: how it is linked with the attachment related to licences and memberships

State of the Arts

My first encounter with Feminist thought- 1st wave was by meeting my dear friend French feminist and writer Ms. Benoite Groult and learning from her about necessity to be aware of the history, to not take all opportunities, but also not all struggles, and challenges, for granted.

´Staying with a trouble, but not in a struggle´

Some long-term simple gifts &magic tips:

Art-based translation of complex cognitive advantages into simple sample (by creation of assemblages, collages, linguistic landscapes), transformation of challenging technical exercises into simple bodily movements, transcription of the highly tensed emotional state into assertive communication and narrative expression.

Dance arts, fine arts, sociology

Writings, installations, choreographic compositions on: Identity politics, mega-trends &lifestyles, rights and rules … by keeping gender glasses on, introducing simple daily rituals and movement for wellbeing, self-esteem, body-integrity, from kindergarten to academia, diplomatic conferences... Exploring feminity concepts and practices in the light of Henry Bergson´s philosophical work and in dialogue with Donna Haraway´s social-ecology, Luce Irigaray ´s thought on planetary love, translation studies (P. Riccoeur, B. Latour and G. C. Spivak, J. Kristeva, ), embodied language (Jean Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deluze,  Arno Böhler, Susanne Valerie Granzer, a.o), and connecting the triangle of ethos, pathos and logos within a spiritual space, found in art practice.

Spaceing: Formats and Places

Intalk Sessions, a series of conversations, #planetarytalks on ZOOM, Skype, 30 min.C&DofK (Cuppes and Drops of Knowledge) in-outdoor multilingual movement&talks in Galleries, Museums, Universities, Schools and also in Kindergartens, …

Art practice illuminates emotional and spiritual state, enables and stimulates cognitive process and re-generates knowledge by new findings, softens body and voice, by strengthening the spirit and mind.

Current/urgent: Orange Feather Initiative