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Title: Vancouver Harbour 24
Keyword: Birds, Water
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of birds on a dock.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Audio 1
Keyword: Water, Boats, Sounds, Language
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds on the Singapore Island Cruise ferry, including creaking noises, engine vibrations, water sounds, and people chatting. Duration: 0:54

Title: East Coast Park 40
Keyword: Water, Coast, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Small waves heading toward a sandy shore.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 1
Keyword: Documentation, Re/development
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: A white wall with a quote from Lee Kuan Yew (2007) about Singapore's Maritime development.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 51
Keyword: Land Reclamation, transnational trade, Industry, Education
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: A screen with information about the Next Generation Port.

Title: Kitsilano Beach 19
Keyword: Water, Rocks, Coast
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of water against large rocks.

Title: Guadalupe Martinez Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Embodiment, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention, Water
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: 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.

Title: False Creek 65
Keyword: Advertising, City, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of the side of a building advertising "avenue one" with imagery of the Habitat Island area.

Title: Museum of Vancouver 10
Keyword: Mapping, City, Industry, Imperialism, Museums
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a map of Vancouver dated 1898.

Title: TELUS World of Science 10
Keyword: Earth, Waste, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.

Title: Elsje Point
Keyword: Monuments, Rocks, Coast, Water
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a large rock with the following engraved on it: ELSJE POINT IN HONOUR OF ELSJE de RIDDER LARSEN ARMSTRONG 1918 - 1981 TO RECOGNIZE 35 YEARS OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE IN THE CITY OF VANCOUVER SEPTEMBER 27, 1984

Title: East Coast Park 42
Keyword: Water, Coast, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Frothy water on a sandy shore.

Title: Phinder Dulai Clip 2
Keyword: Ports, Geography, Multicultural, Space, Asian-Canadian, Movement, Globalization, Water, Transnational
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: 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.

Title: Cecily Nicholson Clip 1
Keyword: Poetry, Space, Ecology, History, Language, Mobility
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: Nicholson touches on topics such as space, history, and poetics by discussing her own experiences working in art and writing.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Audio 2
Keyword: Water, Sounds
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds on the Singapore Island Cruise ferry, including water and engine sounds. Duration: 0:43

Title: Kitsilano Beach 9
Keyword: Water, Birds
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a group of birds on the water.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 48
Keyword: Land Reclamation, boundary, Mapping
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: A screen with images of Singapore's changing coastline from 1975-2016. The image shown is dated 2001.

Title: Lamma Island 28
Keyword: Rocks, Water, Trees
Date: 2018-03-18
Description: Image of rocks and tree branches by the water.

Title: Stanley Park Video 6
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Video of rocks in the water along Stanley Park, near Vancouver Seawall. A bit of shore can be seen at the top of the shot. Duration: 0:38

Title: Singapore City Gallery 1
Keyword: Culture, Mixed Media Art
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Three statues of women with yokes over their shoulders carrying baskets.

Title: Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Poetic Intervention, Surveillance, Water
Date: 2018-01-28
Description: 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.

Title: Stanley Park 33
Keyword: Rocks, Water, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of large rock partly covered in plant life and mostly submerged in shallow water.

Title: Cindy Mochizuki Clip 1
Keyword: Site-specific, Memory, Migration, Space, Water, Ecology, Family, Boat, Globalization, Displacement
Date: 2019-06-07
Description: 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.

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 15
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Architecture, Economy
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video as the Singapore River Cruise boat passes by the Fullerton Bay Hotel; tall buildings are visible in the background. Duration: 0:49

Title: East Coast Park Audio 1
Keyword: Water, Waves, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Audio of ambient sounds at East Coast Park, including the sound of waves hitting the shore. Duration: 0:46

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 11
Keyword: Colonisation, Education, Preservation
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Parchment wall section titled "The Treaties of 1819 and 1824."

Title: Star Ferry Video 7
Keyword: Water, Coast, City, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-03-12
Description: Video slowly moving up to Central Ferry Pier. Duration: 00:25

Title: Juria Toramae 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Photography, Islands, Mapping
Date: 2018-02-24
Description: 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.

Title: East Coast Park 28
Keyword: Water, Land Reclamation, Rocks, Coast
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Ocean water surrounding the rounded edge of a rock jut.

Title: Charles Lim 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Charles Lim talks about land reclamation and his SEA STATE project "Inside / Outside."

Title: Portside Park Video 2
Keyword: Water, Coast, Boats, Sounds, Birds, Shipping Industry, Harbour
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Video of boats at a dock by some small buildings on the water by Portside Park. Harbour cranes are visible in the background on the right side. Duration: 0:45

Title: Nuraliah Norasid 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Communication, Culture, Embodiment
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: 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.

Title: Victoria Harbour Audio 1
Keyword: City, Sounds
Date: 2018-03-10
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at Victoria Harbour. Duration: 0:39

Title: Charles Lim 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Foreshores Act, Water, Visual Art, Mixed Media Art
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: 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).

Title: Wayde Compton Clip 3
Keyword: Ecosystem, Land, Law, Power, Language
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: 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.

Title: West Kowloon 68
Keyword: Water, Rocks, Coast
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Image of large rocks by the water.

Title: Portside Park Video 1
Keyword: City, Movement
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Video by Terminal Avenue in Vancouver looking out the window at the buildings as the SkyTrain moves past them. Duration: 0:32

Title: Kusu Island 33
Keyword: Sand
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy beach.

Title: Intertidal Polyphonies

Title: Kitsilano Beach Video 5
Keyword: Water, Birds, Rocks, Coast
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Video of water against a shore of large rocks in Kitsilano Beach; a lone bird floats by and then dives underwater in the background at 0:27. Duration: 0:36

Title: Jason Wee 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Planning & Design, Colonisation, Mixed Media Art, Government Intervention
Date: 2018-02-23
Description: Jason Wee explains the thought behind his art installation Labyrinths, with references to choreography, colonisation, and governmental planning.

Title: Marina Barrage Audio 2
Keyword: Water, Waves, Birds, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at Marina Barrage, including the sound of waves and birds singing. Duration: 0:50

Title: Labrador Park 22
Keyword: Rocks, Water, Coast
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Wide shot of waves on rocky shore.

Title: Lamma Island 46
Keyword: Birds, Water, Sand, Barriers, Rocks
Date: 2018-03-18
Description: Image of a white bird standing in a puddle of water by a concrete barrier.

Title: Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
Keyword: Migration, Language, Diversity, Culture, Community, Convergence, Arrival, Settlement, Land, Space, Colonialism, Movement, Government, Displacement, Accelerated Change, Singapore, Communication, Modernization, Discrimination, Stratification, Marginalization, Writing
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: 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.

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: 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.

Title: TELUS World of Science 9
Keyword: Earth, Waste
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 8
Keyword: Education, Mapping
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Close-up shot of a map under the "Dutch and Portuguese Accounts" section of the parchment-styled wall (header for this map only partially visible as "Dutch and Por--").

Title: Kusu Island 37
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, shore, Sand, boundary
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Grass becomes a sandy beach, on which there is debris and garbage. Short wooden posts create a line between the grass area and the beach.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 31
Keyword: Land Reclamation, Education, Biodiversity
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: A white wall depicting the steps involved in re-homing corals. Additional information written beside the images.

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