A focal point in the development of Russian conceptual and performance art, Collective Actions Group came into being in 1976. The collective was founded by Andrei Monastyrski, Nikita Alexeev, Georgy Kizevalter, and Nikolai Panitkov. Later members include Elena Elagina, Igor Makarevich, Sergei Romashko, and Sabine Hänsgen. For several decades, the group organised Trips out of Town , in the course of which an empty field in the countryside around Moscow would often become the stage for minimal actions involving the participation of a close network of friends and collaborators.