Crafts of Resistance

Crafts of Resistance draws from the spirit of resilience with which individuals in Lima address adversity by ingeniously refashioning jobs around unexpected services. Similarly, the project explores the idea that scarcity can become a creative propeller, by repetitively making cups based on free materials and social opportunities in the vicinity of the workspace. The form and production of the cups are a gauge of the privileges of the craftsperson in particular contexts. Refusing the status of an object, the cups also become a material to be repurposed and reworked in ways that resist finality. These are some of Daniela Tokashiki Kunigami findings regarding the vast possibilities of artisanal production beyond a Western framework.