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Singapore Island Cruise Audio 1
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Keyword
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Water, Boats, Sounds, Language
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Audio of the ambient sounds on the Singapore Island Cruise ferry, including creaking noises, engine vibrations, water sounds, and people chatting. Duration: 0:54
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Guadalupe Martinez Interview 1: Clip 1
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Embodiment, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention, Water
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Date
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2018-01-30
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Description
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In this clip, Guadalupe Martinez discusses how her Argentinian roots intersect with her current residence in Vancouver through the coast. She talks about how she conceptualises the human body in relation to bodies of water, and how she wants her art to embody this embodied experience.
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Phinder Dulai Clip 2
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Ports, Geography, Multicultural, Space, Asian-Canadian, Movement, Globalization, Water, Transnational
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Date
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2019-06-06
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Description
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In this second clip to the interview, the conversation starts with a discussion of Vancouver as a multicultural place. In turn, this leads into the spaces of ports and ships and global infrastructure of such a space.
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Cecily Nicholson Clip 1
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Poetry, Space, Ecology, History, Language, Mobility
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Date
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2019-06-06
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Description
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Nicholson touches on topics such as space, history, and poetics by discussing her own experiences working in art and writing.
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Singapore Island Cruise Audio 2
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Keyword
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Water, Sounds
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Audio of the ambient sounds on the Singapore Island Cruise ferry, including water and engine sounds. Duration: 0:43
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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 1: Clip 1
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Keyword
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Poetic Intervention, Surveillance, Water
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Date
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2018-01-28
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Description
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In this clip, Shazia Hafiz Ramji discusses the circumstances of beginning to write Port of Being, her debut poetry collection and winner of the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She recounts a story of seeing a child interact with a public transit cop and how she noticed the various forms of surveillance in such a public space. She also describes visiting the Teck Gallery, where she wrote most of the poems in her collection. At the time of this interview, Ramji's collection was not yet released.
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Rita Wong Interview 1: Clip 1
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Water, Solidarity, Community, Embodiment
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Date
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2018-02-01
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Description
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Rita Wong discusses her activist work as a water guardian and how her beliefs in reciprocity and interconnections between humans and land resources inform her activism. She speaks about the motivations behind her involvement with water preservation.
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Cindy Mochizuki Clip 1
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Site-specific, Memory, Migration, Space, Water, Ecology, Family, Boat, Globalization, Displacement
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Date
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2019-06-07
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Description
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In this clip, visual artist Cindy Mochizuki comments on her work called Paper. Mochizuki outlines the inspiration and history of this project and this discussion leads to topics of space, globalization, ecology, memory, and the trans-Pacific.
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Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
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Keyword
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Water, Waves, Shore, Sounds
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Date
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2018-02-02
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Description
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Audio of the sound of the waves hitting the shore at Tower Beach. Duration: 0:41
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East Coast Park Audio 1
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Keyword
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Water, Waves, Sounds
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Date
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2018-02-27
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Description
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Audio of ambient sounds at East Coast Park, including the sound of waves hitting the shore. Duration: 0:46
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Juria Toramae 4: Clip 4
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Keyword
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Photography, Islands, Mapping
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Date
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2018-02-24
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Description
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Juria Toramae talks about her process of super-imposing maps of Singapore on top of each other to show how the coast / outline of the island has changed over time and compare it to her work with photographs in Points of Departure.
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Nuraliah Norasid 3: Clip 3
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Communication, Culture, Embodiment
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Date
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2018-02-27
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Description
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Nuraliah Norasid discusses how she conceived of the languages in The Gatekeeper in relation to the physical bodies of the different races and their social organisations. She explains her decision to use the medusa as a central figure in the novel.
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Victoria Harbour Audio 1
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Keyword
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City, Sounds
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Date
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2018-03-10
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Description
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Audio of the ambient sounds at Victoria Harbour. Duration: 0:39
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Charles Lim 2: Clip 2
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Keyword
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Foreshores Act, Water, Visual Art, Mixed Media Art
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Date
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2018-02-26
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Description
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Charles Lim discusses what he thinks the purpose of visual art is and how visual arts intersect with invisible forces (such as The Foreshores Act).
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Wayde Compton Clip 3
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Ecosystem, Land, Law, Power, Language
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Date
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2018-01-23
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Description
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This section of the interview starts by discussing the way Compton integrates multiple genres into his works. The conversation then ties in the topic of genre theory with a discussion of discourse and language use.
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Jason Wee 3: Clip 3
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Planning & Design, Colonisation, Mixed Media Art, Government Intervention
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Date
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2018-02-23
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Description
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Jason Wee explains the thought behind his art installation Labyrinths, with references to choreography, colonisation, and governmental planning.
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Rita Wong Interview 2: Clip 2
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Keyword
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Water, Poetic Intervention, Culture, Preservation, Embodiment
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Date
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2018-02-01
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Description
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Rita Wong explains that she hopes to foster empathy and generate cultural change through her poetry.
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Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
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Migration, Language, Diversity, Culture, Community, Convergence, Arrival, Settlement, Land, Space, Colonialism, Movement, Government, Displacement, Accelerated Change, Singapore, Communication, Modernization, Discrimination, Stratification, Marginalization, Writing
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Date
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2018-02-27
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Description
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In this recording, Nuraliah Norasid reads an excerpt from her novel The GateKeeper. Norasid raises topics of culture, settlement, discrimination, and development--depicting the colonial reality of spaces and the accelerated changes such a reality brings with it.
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Jordan Abel Interview 4: Clip 4
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Landscape / Skyline
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Date
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2018-01-19
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Description
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In this conclusion of Jordan Abel's interview, he restates the complexity of places like Vancouver, and acknowledges that a place can be simultaneously beautiful and devastating.
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Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
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Ecology, Natural World, Poetry, Mobility, Culture, Settler, Language, Economy, Identity, Space, Diasporic, History
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Date
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2019-06-06
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Description
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In this second clip of the interview, Nicholson touches on topics such as space, colonial history, poetry, and settler language. The discussion then shifts to comment on language use—in particular thinking of the language used in regards to the non-human elements of space.
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Jason Wee 1: Clip 1
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Embodiment, Photography, Mixed Media Art
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Date
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2018-02-23
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Description
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Jason Wee discusses his artistic practice and how he moves between mediums.
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Stanley Park Audio 4
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Sounds, Water, Waves, Movement, Coast, City
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Date
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2018-01-31
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Description
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Audio of the sound of the water and the wind at Stanley Park. Duration:0:32
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Singapore Island Cruise Audio 3
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Keyword
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Water, Waves, Sounds
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Audio of wave sounds. Duration: 0:44
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Stanley Park Audio 3
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Keyword
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Sounds, Water, Waves, Movement
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Date
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2018-01-31
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Description
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Audio of the sound of the water at Stanley Park. Duration: 0:59
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Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 2
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Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046, Water
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Date
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2018-03-15
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Description
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The previous discussion on the metaphor of water is continued in this clip. The interview then turns to comment on how water can lead to a conversation on political and social uncertainty—a theme that is very pressing in regards to the changing landscape of Hong Kong.
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East Coast Park Audio 2
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Keyword
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Water, Waves, Sounds
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Date
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2018-02-27
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Description
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Audio of ambient sounds at East Coast Park, including the sound of waves hitting the shore. Duration: 1:09
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Leung Chi Wo 1: Clip 1
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Narrative, Memory, History, Editied Truth, Power, Personal, Collective, Objects, nostalgia, Commercialization, Commodification
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Date
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2018-03-12
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Description
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In this audio recording, Leung Chi Wo addresses the complex relationship between history and memory in Hong Kong’s past. He acknowledges both the importance and the potential difficulty of object-based presentation, and discusses how he counteracts the problem of the commercialization or commodification of the nostalgia of such objects.
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West Kowloon Audio 3
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Keyword
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Water, City, Sounds
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Date
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2018-03-17
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Description
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Audio of the ambient sounds at West Kowloon, including people talking, a dog barking, and water sounds. Duration: 0:47
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Nuraliah Norasid 1: Clip 1
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Re/development, Gentrification, Planning & Design, Housing
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Date
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2018-02-27
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Description
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Nuraliah Norasid talks about the underground settlement Nelroote in her novel, The Gate Keeper, and compares it to Singapore's history of displacing residents to build new housing.
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Clara Chow 2: Clip 2
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Anxiety, Architecture, Environmental Degradation, Official Narratives
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Date
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2018-02-23
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Description
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Clara Chow discusses how she resists official Singaporean narratives of progress through her writing and assuages personal anxieties about space / purpose / production through crocheting.