(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-06-28) Hernández Ronchi, Hillary; Santamaría Samaniego, Valeria
Taking into account Appadurai’s proposal on the social life of things and regimes of value (1991), the following article analyzes the circulation of some artistic pieces of the Iskonawa and Shipibo-Konibo indigenous peoples in new circuits and spaces of value. Likewise, Alfred Gell’s proposal on art as a system of action is used to reflect on the social effects that these objects of art produce on the intermediaries and their social environment. Initially, the case of the artistic production of the Iskonawa women of the ‘Asociación de artesanas Pari Awin’ is worked, followed by the artistic production of the Shipibo-Konibo. For this purpose, it has been chosen to present a comparative study between both of these productions, with a focus on the aesthetics and their insertion into contemporary markets such as galleries, fairs, among others. The way in which certain objects are inserted in specific spaces and how others do not attain the same exposure is analyzed. This takes into account the relationship between both indigenous peoples, as some of the Iskonawa artists have a previous history with the production of Shipibo-konibo designs, due to the cultural exchange generated by their coexistence on the same territory.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-06-28) Reynoso Gálvez, Micaela; Vara Aliaga, Judith
In this article, we discuss the cases of two artists from Lima, focusing on the strategies they develop to confront institutionalized job insecurity. It is argued that such insecurity is due to the nature of a national art system co-opted by the elites and the State, in which external actors are left aside. Plus, this phenomenon is caused by the capitalist mode of production that frames the artistic labor in a specific way and logic. After carrying out fieldwork during June and July 2021, it is proposed that strategies can be analysed from four different axes: market relations, institutional and/or governmental support, use of social networks and cooperation networks with other colleagues. To achieve analytical depth, we put this empirical data in dialogue with the theoretical approaches that come from anthropology of art and studies of job insecurity and strategies developed by individual actors. Following a material perspective, we read these cases as embedded within a national art system that conditionates specific social and material foundations.