Vessels of Disappearing Craft

The browser is imagined as a vessel of disappearing Filipino crafts. Vessels of Disappearing Craft gathers tutorial videos on how to manipulate locally foraged materials into objects and building materials—often of dying and little-known weaving practices.

These videos uploaded by Filipinos living in the peripheries on YouTube present social media as a potential counter-archive. While the tutorials often only have a handful of views, perhaps platforms still serve as a partial tool to distribute knowledge in a sea of endless information. Knowledge work is thankless, but Isola Tong’s excavation can be its own exercise.