This panel discusses the drives and challenges that mobilised the formation of their respective initiatives in Cali, Colombo, Beirut and Istanbul. How has the development of certain institutional forms enabled the continuation of particular ways of working and thinking? How have decisions to establish a permanent space, work remotely, activate various sites or utilise digital platforms facilitated the elaboration of alliances and common practices that generate the social, political and artistic conditions in which artists and art practitioners want to work?