‘The Idea Is For Us to Work Here In The Workshop!’: The Re-functionalization Of Artisans'  Economic and Cultural Circuits In Florianopolis, South Brazil (pages 47-64)
Daniel Ronaldo de OLIVEIRA CORRÊA, Carmen Silvia de MORAES, Gilson Leandro QUELUZ
Article first published online: 25 February 2012

Keywords: social unity of artisanal production, cultural consumption, urban artisans, handicraft.

Abstract. The purpose of the paper is to present and interpret strategies used by urban artisans to (re)functionalize their workshops into showcases where their performances are (re)organized and exhibited. The workshop is presented here as a privileged space where different aesthetic and political, economic and historic experiences (re)construct performances, as well as other systems of artifacts and spatialities. The workshop is understood as architectural space that performatizes globalized scenographies of desire and their fragmentations and overlappings. We conducted an ethnography impregnated by the random relation of events, encounters and exchanges (whether symbolic or economic) in urban contexts. As a result, we present various devices that trigger expression and updating found in both the artisans’ biographical trajectories and in the systems of artifacts and spaces in a recent urban society.

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