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 theatrical performances, urban interventions, (sound-)installations and films, to publications, discussion and concert series, exhibitions and festivals etc.
Working Languages: English and German
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/blind_date_collaboration/
Blind Date
Alisa Beck (Company Management & Public Relations)
Alisa Beck is a cultural worker, art historian and producer with a focus on experimental formats in performance, music and urban research. She studied art history and cultural studies at University of Vienna and Université Paris-Sorbonne. As a research assistant she is working in the field of contemporary art (currently University of Applied Arts Vienna). She published texts in "ALL-OVER. Magazine for Art and Aesthetics“ (Basel/Vienna) and "Perspectives" (Guggenheim, New York). Since 2008, she worked in the fields of curating, communication and education at various cultural institutions in Leipzig, Paris, Weimar and Vienna. She was part of the artist-run space mo.ë in Vienna (2014-2017) and in the production management for urbanize! festival (2018-2021).
Together with Gustavo Petek she is running smallforms, a platform for contemporary forms of music (Vienna, since 2018). Currently she is board member of IG Kultur Wien and part of the artistic direction team of echoraum with Sara Zlanabitnig (Vienna, 2022).
Marie-Christin Rissinger (Artistic Director & Finances)
Marie-Christin Rissinger studied "Social Design" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The artistic practice ranges from the creation of fictional companies to the translation of an occupation into a theatre game, the staging of theatre plays with robots or a Drag-King-Musical about a financial scandal. Marie-Christin founded the group "Blind Date Collaboration" in 2015. In 2018 they released the publication "Die Akte mo.ë - Protokolle einer abgesagten Zukunft" (2019, edition mono), 2022, the documentary film "Transform!" (64min, 16:9, de/en OmU). 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 (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
in Collaboration with
Frida Robles (Concept, Curating & Performance)
- Love Me Tender, Love me queer (2025/26)
- One-Way Ticket — a Gamble (2022)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2022)
- bumps and bruises (2021)
- I don’t like to say peace (2020)
- U.G.A.I. Union of Global Artificial Intelligence (2019)
- Hobby Horse Ltd. (2019)
- Hobby Horse Ltd. (2015)
- De-petri-fication (2014)
Ulli Koch (Social Media & Public Relations)
- Love Me Tender, Love me queer (2025/26)
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
Rajarshi Sarkar (Concept & Video)
- Love Me Tender, Love me queer (2025/26)
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2022)
Alessia Scuderi (Grafic Design)
- Love Me
Tender, Love me queer (2025/26)
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2022)
Ariella Karatolou (Stage, Light & Costume)
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2023)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
Felix Reutzel (Production)
- Wirecard: Last Exit Bad Vöslau (2024)
- U.G.A.I. Ich bin kein Roboter (2022)
Gustavo Petek (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 (Performance)
- One-Way Ticket — a Gamble (2022)
- One-Way Ticket — a Blinddate (2022)
Anna Hirschmann (Concept & Autor)
- 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)