Circulação de artefatos artesanais: as interações entre a Cooperativa de Artesanato do Oeste e Sudoeste do Paraná e o Programa Trinacional Ñandeva em Foz do Iguaçu - PR

Abstract

This study conducts a cartography with the intent to understand the relationships inside the Programa Trinacional Ñandeva, a program belonging to the Itaipu Technological Park, performed in the region of the Triple border between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina and belonging to' COART - Handcraft Cooperative of West and Southwestern of Paraná. The COART seeks to bring together artisans of the region defending their interests and the Ñandeva wants to improve the handcraft sector and regional, tri-national identity, starting with the intervention of designers in training workshops and creating iconography aimed at craftsmen in the region. It is intended, from the point of view of material culture, realize and point attentions on social relations, conflicts and power struggles that are involved in the production and circulation handmade process. For this, the research relies on the movement of artisanal artifacts and narratives of the subjects involved in the specific context of the city of Foz do Iguaçu, in the period 2012 to 2015. Therefore, it is proposed to understand the proposals and the working of these spaces, and how to follow the movements made by artifacts from narratives of interlocutors Dircéia Braga, Gorette Milioli and Nilse Mognol responsible for Program Ñandeva and COART Cooperative. this is an exploratory research, in which development strategies are related to literature review, exploratory research and analysis of results, seeking to understand and describe the possible existing crossings between Program and Cooperative. It is believed that this study may contribute to the material culture studies demonstrating that the movement of artisanal artifacts are present practices, strategies and disputes not always explicit.