Tania Haberland (BA,HDE, MA) is a poet, bodyworder and biophilic artivist, born in South Africa to a Mauritian mother and a German father, raised in Arabia, miseducated in America and matured in Europe, with the water remaining her primary home (and muse) no matter what land she lives on. Tania has presented her intercultural work, her 'carnal poetics' and ecopoetic rituals, in festivals and performances around the world and loves collaborating with a wide variety of artists, animals and plants. She currently lives between Mauritius and Italy with her partner Fabrizio Dalle Piane, where she works on developing The Technology of Tenderness and their CreatiVita project. Her first poetry collection, Hyphen, won the Ingrid Jonker Prize in 2010. Her poem Resurrection was shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak award in 2016. Her first bilingual book Water Flame / Fiamma d’acqua was published by Mille Gru Editions in 2019. Tania was a resident curator/writer for Passa Porta in 2021 and Versopolis poet in 2020. Tania found her life motto on an eco-friendly shopping bag in San Francisco: “Shit Happens. Make Compost!”
Collaborations in Aquatic Poetic Ritualistic Videopoems between two Islander Artists
