“Meanwhile, gift shop tee-shirts, hand stitched from vintage clothing, contain messages one certainly wouldn’t find in the popular shops along Government Street. Here, the twist on the prototypical souvenir is accentuated by the fact that the shirts are constructed out of scraps.
The store features clothing and postcard racks, as well as benches are all hand built combining old growth wood, salvaged from gentrification/renovation projects in Chinatown and Market Square, in combination with a series of racks and metal taken from dumpsters behind chain stores. Â The history of the city is literally becoming scrap for the dumpster.
The Fifty Fifty Percent Off Store is meant to be playful, but at the same time, it seeks to hold a troublesome mirror up to “Victoriaâ€. The object is to record and question the massive physical and mental dispossession currently occurring here in “Victoria†as the city enters into a new phase of gentrification.”
CFUV Arts and Culture Producer KATIE SAGE is gunna be there, thats sweet. Sage is a multi-disciplinary artist employing a variety of mediums within their artistic practice including film photography, archival images, performance, video, sound, and sculpture installations.
