Internaționalizarea ca practică artistică sau strategie de supraviețuire. Note din interiorul unui teatru independent
Internationalization as Artistic Practice or Survival Strategy. Notes from Within an Independent Theatre

Author(s): Viorel Cojanu, Radu Apostol
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Sociology of Art
Published by: Asociatia Culturala REPLIKA
Keywords: internationalization; independent theatre; transnational collaboration; cultural sustainability; projectification;
Summary/Abstract: This chapter examines internationalization in independent theatre not as a peripheral goal or visibility-driven strategy, but as an embedded artistic and managerial practice shaped by structural precarity. Drawing on the case of the Replika Educational Theatre Center, the authors analyze how transnational collaboration functions as a mechanism of survival, professionalization, and symbolic legitimation within a fragile cultural ecosystem. The chapter argues that, in the absence of coherent national cultural policies, international projects operate as temporary infrastructures that reshape artistic practices, organizational roles, and governance models. While internationalization enables access to resources, networks, and critical exchange, it also intensifies administrative complexity and organizational vulnerability. Positioned within the Eastern European context, the analysis highlights the ambivalent nature of internationalization as both a strategy of resilience and a source of new dependencies, contributing to broader debates on cultural sustainability, projectification, and the role of independent cultural organizations in transnational cultural spaces.

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