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Title: Kusu Island Video 7
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Ships, Boats, transnational trade, Industry
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video panning along the city skyline, the sign, and the large cargo ships. Duration: 0:21

Title: Marina Barrage Video 15
Keyword: Water, Shore, Rocks, Ships, Boats, Construction, Birds, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Video of the rock shore by Marina Barrage with the construction site at Marina East and crane ships in the background. Duration: 1:03

Title: Portside Park 23
Keyword: Water, Distance, Shipping Industry
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of Vancouver Harbour with shipping area visible on the right side of the shot and North Vancouver in the background.

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: Stanley Park 106
Keyword: Water, Boats, City
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of water and docked boats with city skyline in the background.

Title: Stanley Park 90
Keyword: Shipping Industry, Water, Language
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of a metal sign titled "CONTAINER CARGO" briefly describing elements of the shipping industry. Water is visible in the background.

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: Marina Barrage 32
Keyword: Water, erosion, liminality
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Close up on part of the metal barrier of the dam. Shows the wear of the water on the metal.

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: Portside Park 40
Keyword: Barriers, Ecology, Shipping Industry
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of a rusting chainlink fence with shipping area and North Vancouver in the background.

Title: Kitsilano Beach Video 2
Keyword: Water, Birds, Ships, Boats
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Video of a group of birds on the water with ships and boats in the background. Duration 0:36

Title: Kitsilano Beach Audio 2
Keyword: Water, Waves, Shore, Birds, Sounds
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Audio of the sound of the waves hitting the shore at Kitsilano Beach. Duration: 1:05

Title: Victoria Harbour 27
Keyword: Barriers, Water
Date: 2018-03-10
Description: Image of part of the barrier around Central and Western District Promenade with water in the background.

Title: Kusu Island Video 6
Keyword: Water, Barriers, Rocks, Ships, Shipping Industry, transnational trade, Boats, Skyline
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the sign on the rock barrier at Kusu Island that says "DANGER STRONG CURRENTS PLEASE DO NOT SWIM HERE." Several ships and the city skyline are visible in the background. The shot zooms out at about 0:49 to provide a wider view of some large cargo ships. Duration: 1:08

Title: West Kowloon Cultural District Video 17
Keyword: Water, Ships, Mountains, Trees
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Video focused on the ships in the distance until about 0:09, where the focus shifts to the tree branches in the foreground on the right side. Duration: 00:12

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 13
Keyword: Industry, Preservation
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Parchment wall with images of shipping containers through the years from the 1300s to the present day.

Title: Water Tour 7
Keyword: Water, Boats, Cityscape, Skyline, Sky
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Sun shining through the clouds with the citscape to the left and the open water and boats to the right.

Title: Water Tour 5
Keyword: Water, Sky, Cityscape, Skyline
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Sun coming through the cloudy sky overlooking the cityscape.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 65: St. John's Island to Kusu Island
Keyword: Water, Sailing, Landscape / Skyline, Surveillance
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Photo taken from inside a ferry showing the ferry window and a view outside to the main island city skyline and ocean.

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: Lamma Island Video 12
Keyword: Water, Shore, Rocks, Mountains
Date: 2018-03-18
Description: Video of small waves hitting the green-tinged rocks on the shore by the Lo So Shing Sitting Out Area in Lamma Island. Boats, buildings, and tree-covered mountains are visible in the background. Duration: 0:39

Title: Marina Barrage Video 1
Keyword: Water, Construction, Industry, Coast, Ships, Boats
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Video of a view of a construction site on Marina East from Marina Barrage. At about 0:33, the camera zooms in to provide a clearer view of the crane and trucks. Ships and boats on the ocean are visible in the background. Duration: 1:00

Title: Stanley Park 53
Keyword: Water, Boats, City, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of water, docked boats, and city skyline with tree branches in the foreground at the top of the shot.

Title: Rita Wong Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Water, Solidarity, Community, Embodiment
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: 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.

Title: Labrador Park 25
Keyword: Water, Industry, Coast
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Close-up of a red buoy, centred, with ships in the background.

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: Roadway 5
Keyword: Culture, Surveillance
Date: 2018-02-28
Description: A pink sign stating "There your heart goes again ponging from point A to point B like some silly little pinball" in a way that makes your eyes move back and forth like the pinball being described. Sign is mounted on a grassy hill.

Title: Marina Barrage Video 5
Keyword: Water, Construction, City, Skyline, Boats, Ships
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Video of the view of Marina East from Marina Barrage that includes the dam and the construction site. Duration: 0:18

Title: Lamma Island Video 2
Keyword: Water, Waves, Trees
Date: 2018-03-18
Description: Video of small waves moving across the water; trees and a beach are visible at the top of the shot. Duration: 0:22

Title: Stanley Park Video 26
Keyword: Water, Shipping Industry, Ships, Helicopters, Buoys, Sound
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Video of a ship moving on the water with harbour cranes in the background; a helicopter flies through at about 0:40. Duration: 1:05

Title: Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
Keyword: Water, Waves, Shore, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Audio of the sound of the waves hitting the shore at Tower Beach. Duration: 0:41

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: Victoria Harbour Video 8
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Boats
Date: 2018-03-10
Description: Video of what looks like a small piece of garbage floating on the blue water; boats and city skyline are visible in the background with Stonecutters Bridge on the left. Duration: 01:16

Title: False Creek Video 6
Keyword: Water, Boats, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Video of a single boat moving slowly on the water with buildings and Cambie Bridge in the background. Duration 0:52

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: Labrador Park 73
Keyword: Surveillance, shore
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: A sign stating that one should call 999 if one sees any "suspicious activity" such as "Boats landing on beach with suspicious persons onboard," "Suspicious vehicles parked near shorelines," and "Unloading of goods at beach front."

Title: Star Ferry Video 10
Keyword: Water, Boats, Sailing, City, Skyline
Date: 2018-02-12
Description: Video of a docked sailboat on the right side; the city skyline is visible in the background with the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on the right. Duration: 00:47

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: Canada Place Video 5
Keyword: Water, Coast, Boats, Mountains
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Video looking across the water towards Stanley Park. A boat moves towards the right side; another boat enters the shot from the right at about 0:25. Duration: 0:50

Title: Water Tour 4
Keyword: Water, CItyscape, Boats, Skyline
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: A small fishing boat moving across the water with the cityscape in the background.

Title: East Coast Park Video 1
Keyword: Water, Ships, Boats, Coast
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Video of the ocean with ships and boats in the background. The camera zooms out at about 0:21. Duration: 1:09

Title: Portside Park 21
Keyword: Water, Distance
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of Vancouver Harbour with North Vancouver across the water in the background.

Title: Intertidal Polyphonies

Title: Star Ferry 5
Keyword: Water, Boats, Quotidian
Date: 2018-03-12
Description: Image taken from the ferry of the water surronding the pier.

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: Canada Place Video 19
Keyword: Water, Harbour, Ships, Boats, Shipping Industry, Mountains
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Video recorded on Canada Place, in Vancouver, containing a pier at the foreground, harbour cranes on the right, and ships by North Vancouver on the left side of the background. Duration: 0:47

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