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'Flâneur' By Erik Volet & Elif Saydam

Fri. August 3rd 2012 - Sun. August 5th 2012 1407 Government St.

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'Flâneur' By Erik Volet & Elif Saydam:

"The flâneur is idle and intoxicated, he strolls aimlessly and half dreaming, m...
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Fri. August 3rd 2012 - Sun. August 5th 2012 + Add to Calendar 1407 Government St. (All Ages)
August 3rd: 10pm - August 5th : 6am

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Integrate Art Society
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PO Box 35110 Hillside Ave Victoria BC
since 2006

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"The flâneur is idle and intoxicated, he strolls aimlessly and half dreaming, making studies of his environment and remembering the city through his soles."

-David Duindam,
Performing Urban Memory, The façade of the Hollandsche Schouwburg: theater, site of terror, site of memory


As a method of engaging with local Victoria history I have employed the mediums of photography, collage and montage. In this way I have been able to interact with archival historical photographic materials on the one hand, with present day photographs of local sites on the other. In this way I have attempted to produce 'cut-ups' or 'mash-ups' which bring together past and present in a visual synthesis. In this way I hope to show the imbedded historicity, which exists in the seemingly innocuous contemporary monument, site, or façade.

Further elements, which have entered into consideration for the production of the collage pieces, are:


  • Fan Tan Alley, "Joss House temple" (multiplicity/repetition), ornament, interior, exterior

  • Historic buildings, demolition, construction site, "ruins", out of the way sites, marginality, heterogeneity, poppies, opium house, urban myth

  • Colonial interiors, tourism, monarchy, Empress hotel, bastion Square, police archives, Freemason building

  • History, memory, communities, culture, ethnicity, neighborhood, criminality, demolition, development, "urban decay", architecture, ambiance, 'the Sacred'


    • Elif Saydam works in a variety of different media and methodologies. She employs 3D modes of construction whose tendency towards abstraction engages with and plays against Volet 's 2D works which, represent a realist or photographic mode of representation (reconfigured into partial abstraction via collage). Her constructions provide a foil for the collages insofar as they are both more 'real' in their materiality than Volet's collages while at the same time they are more 'abstract' than his reconfigured photographs in that they employ pattern and the invite a formalist sense of play.

    Erik Volet is a graduate of the Uvic visual arts program who has been an active participant in the local arts scene for the last decade. Recently he has been working on large-scale figurative paintings. Other forms he engages in have been publication of art books, making of zines, illustration of books, and a constant involvement with street art and mural painting. Influences, which continue to be important to his art practice have been elements of popular culture including comic book art, street art, and hip hop culture as well as surrealist theory and practice.

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