Create It to Make It: But What Can An International Alliance Do?

How is internationalism — more specifically, regional internationalism — practiced as a form of institution building in the East of Europe? Why is the question of internationalism particularly important for a non-Western European art initiative? What is the significance of self-instituting, both in theoretical terms and also in the very act? How is it possible to work transnationally? I will look at these problematics while highlighting their challenges in practice — as I have confronted them through my involvement in the East Europe Biennial Alliance, a recent transnational attempt to build up, from below, a non-existent regional infrastructure to support art and culture in Eastern Europe.