Alisa Beck (Blind Date Collaboration) works as an art historian and producer focusing on urban research and action, and experimental formats in performance and music. She was part of the artistic direction team of the artist-run space mo.ë in Vienna (2014-2017). She studied art history and cultural studies at University of Vienna and Université Paris-Sorbonne. As a research assistant she is working at the departement of art history at University of Applied Arts Vienna. She published the book “Die Akte mo.ë – Protokolle einer abgesagten Zukunft” (Hg. mit Marie-Christin Rissinger, edition mono) and in “all-over – Magazine for Art and Aesthetics“ (Basel/Vienna). Her artistic works are shown at festivals such as “urbanize!” (Vienna, 2016), “Wiener Festwochen” (2017) and “Steirischer Herbst” (Graz, 2020). Since 2018 she is doing the production for “urbanize! Int. Festival for Urban Explorations”. Currently she is chairwoman of IG Kultur Wien.
Marie-Christin Rissinger (Blind Date Collaboration), studied Psychology (BA) at the University of Vienna and Social Design (MA) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her practice includes art, curating, crafting and producing as much as political and theoretical contentions. Her artistic medium is communication. By using performative strategies her works are creating situations of negotiation, some of which are articulated in public- some in the theater-space. In 2015 she received a START scholarship (Federal Chancellery Austria). Her work is shown at festivals such as “urbanize – International Festival for Urban Explorations” (Vienna, 2016),”Britney X Festival” (Britney, Schauspiel Köln, 2017), “Wiener Festwochen” (2017), “Donaufestival” (Krems, 2018) or “Steirischer Herbst” (2020). In the last years she was involved in various social struggles such as “Refugee Protest Camp Vienna” (2012/13) and “mo.ë bleibt” (2016/17). Currently she is working on a documentary film, titled “Transformiert Euch!”
Alisa Beck (Blind Date Collaboration) works as an art historian and producer focusing on urban research and action, and experimental formats in performance and music. She was part of the artistic direction team of the artist-run space mo.ë in Vienna (2014-2017). She studied art history and cultural studies at University of Vienna and Université Paris-Sorbonne. As a research assistant she is working at the departement of art history at University of Applied Arts Vienna. She published the book “Die Akte mo.ë – Protokolle einer abgesagten Zukunft” (Hg. mit Marie-Christin Rissinger, edition mono) and in “all-over – Magazine for Art and Aesthetics“ (Basel/Vienna). Her artistic works are shown at festivals such as “urbanize!” (Vienna, 2016), “Wiener Festwochen” (2017) and “Steirischer Herbst” (Graz, 2020). Since 2018 she is doing the production for “urbanize! Int. Festival for Urban Explorations”. Currently she is chairwoman of IG Kultur Wien.
Marie-Christin Rissinger (Blind Date Collaboration), studied Psychology (BA) at the University of Vienna and Social Design (MA) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her practice includes art, curating, crafting and producing as much as political and theoretical contentions. Her artistic medium is communication. By using performative strategies her works are creating situations of negotiation, some of which are articulated in public- some in the theater-space. In 2015 she received a START scholarship (Federal Chancellery Austria). Her work is shown at festivals such as “urbanize – International Festival for Urban Explorations” (Vienna, 2016),”Britney X Festival” (Britney, Schauspiel Köln, 2017), “Wiener Festwochen” (2017), “Donaufestival” (Krems, 2018) or “Steirischer Herbst” (2020). In the last years she was involved in various social struggles such as “Refugee Protest Camp Vienna” (2012/13) and “mo.ë bleibt” (2016/17). Currently she is working on a documentary film, titled “Transformiert Euch!”
Edona Kryeziu is an artist, researcher and writer. Working with multiple media such as video and photography, her installations deal with the topic of migration, identity, nationalism and representation. Her interest lies in breaking away from hegemonic ideas of Europeanness and non-Europeanness to question the status-quo in the E.U. as well as at its peripheries. Re-narrating the story of Europe and its Other(s) she explores new means of creating postnational art and culture.
Edona Kryeziu is an artist, researcher and writer. Working with multiple media such as video and photography, her installations deal with the topic of migration, identity, nationalism and representation. Her interest lies in breaking away from hegemonic ideas of Europeanness and non-Europeanness to question the status-quo in the E.U. as well as at its peripheries. Re-narrating the story of Europe and its Other(s) she explores new means of creating postnational art and culture.
Ovid Pop is a political scientist, transnational writer and theorist. In 2016 he co-founded together with Radostina Patulova the kollektiv sprachwechsel: Literatur in the Zweitsprache, a literary group of second language writers based in Vienna. Also, Ovid Pop conceptualizes and organizes exhibitions and participative art workshops dealing with topics such as: modernity/coloniality, modernization, logistic capitalism, imperialism and epistemic colonialism within the European context. Ovid Pop is the author of a concept literary book The Estate of the Living*Domeniul Celor Vii (Romanian, English, German, tranzit.ro/ Iași, 2018), the novel Trickster (Romanian, Polirom, 2009); he co-wrote the novel Rubik (Romanian, Polirom 2008). He has published short stories and poetry in German, among others (Edition Exil, Vienna, 2015), Politisch Schreiben (Dresden, 2018, 2019, 2020), Triëdere (2020). His texts are translated into BCS, French, English, German, Hungarian. Ovid Pop gives lectures on literary topics, art theory and anticolonial thinking. He organizes public readings and debates on writing in secondary languages in Vienna and in collaboration with transnational European literary groups. His articles are published in magazines in Romania, Austria, Hungary and Germany. Ovid Pop works and lives in Bucharest and Vienna.
Ovid Pop is a political scientist, transnational writer and theorist. In 2016 he co-founded together with Radostina Patulova the kollektiv sprachwechsel: Literatur in the Zweitsprache, a literary group of second language writers based in Vienna. Also, Ovid Pop conceptualizes and organizes exhibitions and participative art workshops dealing with topics such as: modernity/coloniality, modernization, logistic capitalism, imperialism and epistemic colonialism within the European context. Ovid Pop is the author of a concept literary book The Estate of the Living*Domeniul Celor Vii (Romanian, English, German, tranzit.ro/ Iași, 2018), the novel Trickster (Romanian, Polirom, 2009); he co-wrote the novel Rubik (Romanian, Polirom 2008). He has published short stories and poetry in German, among others (Edition Exil, Vienna, 2015), Politisch Schreiben (Dresden, 2018, 2019, 2020), Triëdere (2020). His texts are translated into BCS, French, English, German, Hungarian. Ovid Pop gives lectures on literary topics, art theory and anticolonial thinking. He organizes public readings and debates on writing in secondary languages in Vienna and in collaboration with transnational European literary groups. His articles are published in magazines in Romania, Austria, Hungary and Germany. Ovid Pop works and lives in Bucharest and Vienna.
Lala Raščić (b. 1977 Sarajevo) is a media and performance artist using the strategy of enactment to deliver narratives that include verbal video performances, performances, performative installation environments, video projections, objects, light, drawing, and painting. Recent activities include work on the project Europa Enterprise with Andreja Dugandžić and Jelena Petrović and the production of the video EE-0: Arachne – a joint commission by the Kadist and Lumbardhi Foundations. Solo exhibitions include GORGO at the Acadian Center for the Arts, Lafayette (2019); The Eumenides, Museo Lapidarium, Novigrad and Waldinger Gallery, Osijek (2018); Evil Earth System, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans (2016); Evil Earth, Culture Center Tobacna, Ljubljana (2015); How to do Things With Words, SKUC, Ljubljana (2014); No Country Other Than Liberty, Mali Salon, Rijeka (2013); Whatever the Object, GfZK, Leipzig (2013); A Load from the Inside – Reviewed, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna (2011), Everything is Connected, National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo (2007). Group shows include 54. Zagreb Salon (2019); Testimony Truth or Politics, Galerija-legat Milice Zorić i Rodoljuba Čolakovića of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2018); Witnesses, Bodies in Dialogue and Processes of Reflection, MMC Luka, Pula (2016); Kabinet, Apoteka in Gallery Waldinger, Osijek (2015); Memory Lane, Galerije du Jour, Agnes B, Paris (2014); the 54th October Salon, Belgrade (2013); D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic (2011); Second World, Steierischer Herbst, Graz (2011); City of Women, Ljubljana (2009, 2008); Normalization, Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul (2005); New Video, New Europe, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2004); and Balkan Konsulat,
Lala Raščić (b. 1977 Sarajevo) is a media and performance artist using the strategy of enactment to deliver narratives that include verbal video performances, performances, performative installation environments, video projections, objects, light, drawing, and painting. Recent activities include work on the project Europa Enterprise with Andreja Dugandžić and Jelena Petrović and the production of the video EE-0: Arachne – a joint commission by the Kadist and Lumbardhi Foundations. Solo exhibitions include GORGO at the Acadian Center for the Arts, Lafayette (2019); The Eumenides, Museo Lapidarium, Novigrad and Waldinger Gallery, Osijek (2018); Evil Earth System, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans (2016); Evil Earth, Culture Center Tobacna, Ljubljana (2015); How to do Things With Words, SKUC, Ljubljana (2014); No Country Other Than Liberty, Mali Salon, Rijeka (2013); Whatever the Object, GfZK, Leipzig (2013); A Load from the Inside – Reviewed, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna (2011), Everything is Connected, National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo (2007). Group shows include 54. Zagreb Salon (2019); Testimony Truth or Politics, Galerija-legat Milice Zorić i Rodoljuba Čolakovića of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2018); Witnesses, Bodies in Dialogue and Processes of Reflection, MMC Luka, Pula (2016); Kabinet, Apoteka in Gallery Waldinger, Osijek (2015); Memory Lane, Galerije du Jour, Agnes B, Paris (2014); the 54th October Salon, Belgrade (2013); D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic (2011); Second World, Steierischer Herbst, Graz (2011); City of Women, Ljubljana (2009, 2008); Normalization, Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul (2005); New Video, New Europe, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2004); and Balkan Konsulat,
Dr. Dorone Paris is an Israeli political composer living and working in Ireland. She holds a PhD in Music Composition from University College Cork in Ireland. Being raised in Israel influenced her political ideas and affected her musical creativity, aesthetics and philosophy. Her work focuses mainly on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict women’s rights. She is the founder of PATH art: an organisation dedicated to convincing her people that a peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians is both possible and necessary. She, together with Sylvia Hinz, is the founder of ArtEquality: a non-profit organisation and an activist movement for equality and feminism that offers support to artists whose work concerns gender equality. Her art has been performed throughout the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Tunisia, Bosnia, Serbia, Italy, Austria, Israel and Palestine. For more details check out: www.doroneparis.com
Dr. Dorone Paris is an Israeli political composer living and working in Ireland. She holds a PhD in Music Composition from University College Cork in Ireland. Being raised in Israel influenced her political ideas and affected her musical creativity, aesthetics and philosophy. Her work focuses mainly on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict women’s rights. She is the founder of PATH art: an organisation dedicated to convincing her people that a peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians is both possible and necessary. She, together with Sylvia Hinz, is the founder of ArtEquality: a non-profit organisation and an activist movement for equality and feminism that offers support to artists whose work concerns gender equality. Her art has been performed throughout the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Tunisia, Bosnia, Serbia, Italy, Austria, Israel and Palestine. For more details check out: www.doroneparis.com
Ines Doujak and John Barker have made a series of works on labour, logistics and exploitation in a globalised world in which the dirty footprints of colonialism are made visible. These have appeared in exhibitions and Biennals all over the world including Dhaka Sao Paulo, Korea and Kochi as well as across Europe.
Ines Doujak and John Barker have made a series of works on labour, logistics and exploitation in a globalised world in which the dirty footprints of colonialism are made visible. These have appeared in exhibitions and Biennals all over the world including Dhaka Sao Paulo, Korea and Kochi as well as across Europe.
Minna Henriksson was born in 1976 in Oulu, Finland. She has studied art in Brighton, Helsinki and Malmö, and since then lived long periods in South East Europe. In 2009 she returned to Helsinki and was faced with urgency to respond to increased nationalism and racism through her artwork. Henriksson is interested in bringing visible covert politics and uses of power, and works often collaboratively in research-based projects. In 2017 she was awarded with the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Award of artistic work committed to the ideal of democracy and antifascism.
Minna Henriksson was born in 1976 in Oulu, Finland. She has studied art in Brighton, Helsinki and Malmö, and since then lived long periods in South East Europe. In 2009 she returned to Helsinki and was faced with urgency to respond to increased nationalism and racism through her artwork. Henriksson is interested in bringing visible covert politics and uses of power, and works often collaboratively in research-based projects. In 2017 she was awarded with the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Award of artistic work committed to the ideal of democracy and antifascism.
Andrei Nacu (b. 1984) lives and works in London, U.K. and Iasi, Romania. In his creative practice he is using documentary photography, the family album and the photographic archive to create stories which analyze the junction between personal memory and social history. His most recent work includes video, installation and performance and focuses on the politics of representation and media archaeology. Currently he is working at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London. In 2013 he graduated with an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of Wales, Newport and previously studied Photography and Video at the George Enescu National University of Arts, Iasi, Romania.
Andrei Nacu (b. 1984) lives and works in London, U.K. and Iasi, Romania. In his creative practice he is using documentary photography, the family album and the photographic archive to create stories which analyze the junction between personal memory and social history. His most recent work includes video, installation and performance and focuses on the politics of representation and media archaeology. Currently he is working at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London. In 2013 he graduated with an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of Wales, Newport and previously studied Photography and Video at the George Enescu National University of Arts, Iasi, Romania.
Baran Caginli (b.1990, Istanbul) is a Helsinki based artist, working with different disciplines. The framework of his practice relates to issues such as systematic repression, extermination, disappearance, amnesia, ethnic discrimination, state power, forced migrations, forced disappearances but in the same time re-appearance, collective memory and the state’s contradictions. Most people and objects he has included in his works are in the position of witness of an incident. Although the witnesses belong to local problems and realities, they also refer to problems and witnesses in other geopolitical contexts.
Baran Caginli (b.1990, Istanbul) is a Helsinki based artist, working with different disciplines. The framework of his practice relates to issues such as systematic repression, extermination, disappearance, amnesia, ethnic discrimination, state power, forced migrations, forced disappearances but in the same time re-appearance, collective memory and the state’s contradictions. Most people and objects he has included in his works are in the position of witness of an incident. Although the witnesses belong to local problems and realities, they also refer to problems and witnesses in other geopolitical contexts.
Nebojša Milikić (1964) Cultural worker and producer, lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Since 1990 engaged in political activism, organizational, artistic and curatorial practice in visual and relational arts, independent research, public debate and critical writing about cultural and political problems of transitional societies. Publishes in various activist and art portals, participates in collaborative projects, activist research and campaigns in country and abroad. Conceives and realizes guided tours through suburbs, debate spaces and memorial sites in Belgrade. From 1999 onward works in Cultural Center Rex in Belgrade, as the initiator and coordinator of various programs and projects. Member of the initiative No To Rehabilitation dedicated to struggle against historical revisionism and negationism. Recently edited few publications in Serbia and Romania about the political and cultural positioning of today’s middle classes.
Nebojša Milikić (1964) Cultural worker and producer, lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Since 1990 engaged in political activism, organizational, artistic and curatorial practice in visual and relational arts, independent research, public debate and critical writing about cultural and political problems of transitional societies. Publishes in various activist and art portals, participates in collaborative projects, activist research and campaigns in country and abroad. Conceives and realizes guided tours through suburbs, debate spaces and memorial sites in Belgrade. From 1999 onward works in Cultural Center Rex in Belgrade, as the initiator and coordinator of various programs and projects. Member of the initiative No To Rehabilitation dedicated to struggle against historical revisionism and negationism. Recently edited few publications in Serbia and Romania about the political and cultural positioning of today’s middle classes.