Blind Date Collaboration
We are an open group addressing social issues through an artistic and interdisciplinary approach. The aim of Blind Date Collaboration is to create situations, make spaces and find strategies on (site) specific and context-based problematics. We believe in unexpected collaborations! In the sense of a 'conflictual participation' we understand collaboration (as opposed to cooperation) as a form of working together that allows different interests in one place.
We value long-term working relationships at the same time we are convinced that it is essential to confront our own practice with the previously unknown - be it working methods, languages or thematic interests. Moreover we figure it important to use the 'symbolic capital of art' for counter political struggles.
The structure of our practice is based on the reflexion on a specific topic and context for each work. These can take on different forms ranging from theater performances, urban interventions, installations and films, to publications, discussion, exhibitions and festivals etc.
Working Languages: English and German
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/blind_date_collaboration/
Blind Date
Marie-Christin Rissinger (m-c)
(they/them)
Artistic Director & Finances
Marie-Christin Rissinger questions social and political realities by transforming them into fictional narratives—and vice versa.. Their artistic work ranges from translating the story of an artist-run space resisting eviction into a Theater-Game, founding an imaginary company, to staging object theater pieces from the perspective of intelligent machines. They have also directed a documentary film accompanying climate activists in actions of civil disobedience and staged a financial scandal as a Drag-King-Musical. m-c works transdisciplinarily, moving between theater performance, urbanism, activism, theory, film, and installation. Theatre works have been shown at festivals such as transeuropa (Hildesheim, 2015), BRITNEY X FESTIVAL (Schauspiel Köln, 2017), Donaufestival (Krems, 2018) or steirischer herbst'20 (Graz, 2020). www.marie-christin-rissinger.com
Johann Brigitte Schima
(they/them)
Concept, Stage & Costume
Johann Brigitte Schima works as a stage and costume designer in state theaters and in the independent scene. In recent years, most of the works have been realised together with the directors Mia Constantine, Constantin Hochkeppel, Marie-Christin Rissinger and Philipp Rosendahl. Johann Brigitte Schima's work was shown at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Burgtheater Vienna, Theater am Werk, Stadttheater Gießen, Theater Konstanz, Comedia Cologne, Staatstheater Cottbus, WUK performing art, Staatstheater Kassel, E.T.H. Hoffmann Theater Bamberg, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, LICHTHOF Theater, Tanzfaktur Cologne. www.brigitteschima.com
Rajarshi Sarkar
(he/him)
Concept & Video
Rajarshi Sarkar is a filmmaker based in Vienna and Mumbai. After completing his studies in directing and screenwriting at the Film and Television Institute of India, he worked as an associate director in Mumbai. Following his work on several Netflix web series, he wrote the first season of a German-Indian web show, which is currently in pre-production. Most recently, he directed a documentary about groundwater in India and is currently working on his first feature film script – a fantasy drama about a child who uncovers the hidden life of his father. In Fall 2025 he starts the Master programm "Art & Sience" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Ulli Koch
(they/them)
Social Media & Public Relations
Ulli Koch studied German Philology, Comparative Literature, and Gender Studies. They co-edited the queer-feminist magazine fiber. werkstoff für feminismus und popkultur, managed public relations for WUK performing arts, and now work both freelance and employed in the field of communications, with a focus on digital media and anti-discrimination informed practices.
in Collaboration with
artists realized more than two projects with BDC
Alisa Beck
Company Management & Public Relations
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
- One-Way Ticket — a Gamble (2023)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2023)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
- U.G.A.I. Hört die Signale! (2020)
- U.G.A.I. Union of Global Artificial Intelligence (2019)
Concept, Curating, Editing, Dramaturgie
- I don't like to say peace (2020)
- Paramnesia (2019)
- Die Akte mo.ë — Protokolle einer Abgesagten Zukunft (2019)
- Nach uns die U-Bahn (2018)
- You're being sued (2017)
Nora Jakobs (she/her)
Performance
- Love Me Tender, Love me queer (2025/26)
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
Felix Reutzel (he/him)
Production
- Love Me Tender, Love me queer (2025/26)
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
Frida Robles (she/her)
Concept, Curating, Editing & Performance
- Love Me Tender, Love me queer (2025/26)
- One-Way Ticket — a Gamble (2023)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2023)
- bumps and bruises (2021)
- I don’t like to say peace (2020)
- U.G.A.I. Union of Global Artificial Intelligence (2019)
- Paramnesia (2019)
- Hobby Horse Ltd. (2019)
- Hobby Horse Ltd. (2015)
- De-petri-fication (2014)
Elise Yuki Mory (she/her)
Music
- Love Me Tender, Love me queer (2025/26)
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
Alessia Scuderi (she/her)
Grafic Design
- Love Me Tender, Love me queer (2025/26)
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2022)
Ariella Karatolou (she/her)
Stage, Light & Costume
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2023)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
Gustavo Petek (he/him)
Sound Engineering
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
- U.G.A.I. Hört die Signale! (2020)
- U.G.A.I. Union of Global Artificial Intelligence (2019)
Christoph Speit aka Concealia Knows (they/them)
Performance
- One-Way Ticket — a Gamble (2023)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2023)
Anna Hirschmann (Concept & Author)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
- U.G.A.I. Hört die Signale! (2020)
Klemens Kohlweis (Machine Design)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
- U.G.A.I. Hört die Signale! (2020)
- U.G.A.I. Union of Global Artificial Intelligence (2019)
Fabian Lanzmaier (Sound/Composition)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
- U.G.A.I. Hört die Signale! (2020)
- U.G.A.I. Union of Global Artificial Intelligence (2019)
Andreas Zißler (Stage & Video)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
- U.G.A.I. Hört die Signale! (2020)
- U.G.A.I. Union of Global Artificial Intelligence (2019)
Anna Lerchbaumer (Stage & Video)
- U.G.A.I. Hört die Signale! (2020)
- U.G.A.I. Union of Global Artificial Intelligence (2019)
Konstantin Wolf (Concept, Performance & Grafic Design)
- U.G.A.I. Union of Global Artificial Intelligence (2019)
- Hobby Horse Ltd. (2019)
- Hobby Horse Ltd. (2015)
- De-petri-fication (2014)
Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez (Concept & Performance)
- Hobby Horse Ltd. (2015)
- De-petri-fication (2014)
David Palme (Concept & Performance)
- Hobby Horse Ltd. (2015)
- De-petri-fication (2014)
Spaces
mo.ë († 31.05.2017)
Garnisongasse 7 († 31.12.2017)
kitchen - Zentrum der Tat (*01.06.2018)