About
The BKB group was founded in 2019 and focuses on reenactments of artistic works, performance staging, and the reconstruction of public events. In its projects, the group employs various team collaboration methodologies and experiments with different modes of communication within the collective.
Members: Arseny Balakirev, Anna Brandush, Egor Dvinyanin, Ira Karpusheva, Alek Petuk, Tatyana Suhareva, Saba Uspine, Lyuba Yagdanova.
The Method
At the heart of the coincidental method lies the question of super-determined identification of a situation’s central conflict—and the possibility of developing protocols that ensure conflict resolution and an increase in the degree of its reality.
To identify the central conflict of a situation, one must have the will to notice coincidences. However, will alone is not enough—basic literacy is also required, enabling one to read these patterns.
The key breakthrough in the development of the coincidental method over the past year has been the creation of the “calculation of environments,” based on a typology of minimal contact. This innovation makes such reading accessible to everyone.
This project is dedicated to this topic and its practical implications.
The key breakthrough in the development of the coincidental method over the past year has been the creation of the “calculation of environments,” based on a typology of minimal contact. This innovation makes such reading accessible to everyone.
This project is dedicated to this topic and its practical implications.
Coincidental Institute
A meta-organization enabling the coordination of theoretical and practical efforts by various groups working with coincidences.
The Institute was founded in 2020, continuing the trajectory initiated by the Coincidental International project. However, the Institute is now dedicated to interdisciplinary theoretical and critical work (reframing truths), the development of new operational protocols, and the testing of these protocols through real-world practical cases embodied in tangible objects.
The Institute’s Scientific Council has decided to develop the project within the field of contemporary art. This strategic choice is based on the current conditions, under which the projects the Institute is engaged with today can be recognized and accepted as legitimate within the art and cultural institutions.
Institute members: Yoel Regev, Alek Petuk, Nikolay Ulyanov, Yura Plokhov, Anton Struzhkin.
The Institute’s Scientific Council has decided to develop the project within the field of contemporary art. This strategic choice is based on the current conditions, under which the projects the Institute is engaged with today can be recognized and accepted as legitimate within the art and cultural institutions.
Institute members: Yoel Regev, Alek Petuk, Nikolay Ulyanov, Yura Plokhov, Anton Struzhkin.