In her  composition of artworks CALMANT,

Tatjana Christelbauer moves between languages and natural landscapes.

The bodily movement in interplay with the text corpus moves across spaces and timelines, constructed, de-constructed and re-constructed with a 5 m long pearl necklaces.

The book CALMANT is composed as a set of narrative dialogues with the French painter Marie Laurencin on exile, migration and the art as a space of exile. 

The interwoven thoughts are linked in a composition of poems and quotes of Laurencin with translations into reflexive analysis of Chistelbauer on her own experience of migration, war exile, herself as ´óther women´,  and the art as a space of exile in which she could find safe place and the narrative form as a self-constitutive practice. A scientific basis is formed by the approaches to postcolonial theories and the postmodern philosophical analyses of the concept of "other " and a "self in context" (S. Benhabib), devices of power and the techniques of the self (M. Foucault), semiotic language - and writing analyses of intercultural connections and interdependencies (J. Kristeva, J. Derrida) in relation to the current effects of global politics on the individual in the sustainability discourse.

The first exhibition Calmant1 was presented in the Amerlinghaus Gallery in Vienna.

For the premiere of the multimedia performance CALMANT in the Palais Glam-Callas, Institut Francais, Vienna 2008, the French writer Benoite Groult came to Vienna for the first time and shared her memories of her godmother Marie Laurencin with the audience. In the book CALMANT is a passage with more details about the performance and the single artworks of Tatjana Christelbauer and her team, consisting of the visual artist Michael Kral, music composer Jan Vysocky (electronics), Sara Arnold (voice, text),  Catherine Lecoque and Una-Srna-Sehic (readings) in cooperation with the Viennese associations Ditiramb, edition  Exil, (Christa Stippinger), Max Rainhardt Academy (Susanne Granzer),.

The projects and presentations has been founded by Vienna Magistrate MA7.

Further development of the CALMANT has been approached and presented as a composition of artworks entitled "Corpus Callosum 3rd development" and was presented in 2019  at the  Arts&Science exibition "Hémisphéres" at ETH Zurich.

The art installation was built as a set of three interconnected entities: the Corpus Callosum consisting of 4 m long silk scarves  in light rosa and gray, "A-Netrin and mirror neurons"  with double stick yellow tapes and the mindmap poster consisting of photo images of artworks which has been created in the time of emergency, with the aim to illustrate the  hemispheric lateralisation of the self and its re-constitution through artistic expression. 

Visiting guests could explore the "shift" into other landscapes by a M-Language play by pronouncing the terms : Regen, Kiša, Pluie, Pioggia, ... and exchanging their associative images , bodily feeling, emotional state .

CALMANT 2030 is a novel composition of artworks: two painthings and the 3rd space stigma: bRaining" 

 Exibition and presentation took part in Move on dance center Vienna Neubaugasse in June 2020 with dance performance "Oh, Marie" for the finissage

^{bRaining has been developed as a new landscape: a curtain with a pink feather nailed in the center of the fabric. 3rd Space. Stigma” features a spiked pink feather on a dark grey curtain stretched across the wall in a rectangular shape. The fabric contains creases caused by the packaging. This structure is intended to show the connotations of the individual's character and formation in various socio-political contexts.On its left and right are paintings positioned:}

^{"The Fragmentation" (acryl on paper) on the left of the -3rd space Stigma A double profile emerges from lines and strokes, in the color mixture of feelings. The position of the image on the left side of the “3rd Space.Stigma” is associated with the language function, which is located in the left side of the brain hemisphere by most people.
On the right side next to the "3rd space stigma" is the painting titled "ResistDance". In the center of the pictorial composition appears the figure of a dancer who was constructed with white brushstrokes and ´vegetates´ as a silhouette between two spheres. The upper pictorial sphere, which is connected with grey lines to a prosodic landscape in the multilingual space: grey "rain smudges". On the lower pictorial sphere there is a wave landscape, which is connoted with sudden events and tremors and borders on the edge of the dancer's dance dress. A pink circle in the center in the background figures here as Sphairos, a place of stillness and being in which the tolerability of circumstances is attained. The life-sustaining effectiveness of self-technology (here using narrative and pictorial forms of expression) was revealed using the color pink.}

The string of 59 pearls made up of various connections in the process of self-constitution changes its function and form during Tatjana Christelbauer's dance performance.

The main motifs of the entire work are presented in a 3-minute excerpt of the one-hour multimedia performance CALMANT.

Music: Jan Vysozky. Text: Marie Laurencin. Voice: Sara Arnold. Concept, choreography: Tatjana Christelbauer

Dance performance by Tatjana Christelbauer "Oh, Marie": a landscape in the rain that forms an exile space between brushstrokes, lines and dance steps in which the voices and the writings overlap. Dress: striped reconstruction.

Regen-Rosa interactive installation and art talk at the Rosa Buffet.

Terrible Beauty MakeUp by Una-Srna Sehic LylithArt