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Polygon Gallery 4
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Keyword
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Art, Language, Shape
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Date
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2018-02-01
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Description
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Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography."
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Title
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Singapore Maritime Gallery 1
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Keyword
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Documentation, Re/development
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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A white wall with a quote from Lee Kuan Yew (2007) about Singapore's Maritime development.
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Title
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Museum of Vancouver 1
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Keyword
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Museums, Language, Musqueam Knowledge, Relationality
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Date
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2018-01-24
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Description
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Image of a white wall with a welcoming message in the Musqueam language as well as in English and French.
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Title
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False Creek 65
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Keyword
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Advertising, City, Ecology
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Date
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2018-01-22
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Description
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Image of the side of a building advertising "avenue one" with imagery of the Habitat Island area.
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Title
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Museum of Vancouver 10
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Keyword
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Mapping, City, Industry, Imperialism, Museums
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Date
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2018-01-24
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Description
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Image of a map of Vancouver dated 1898.
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Title
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TELUS World of Science 10
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Keyword
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Earth, Waste, City
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Date
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2018-01-22
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Description
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Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.
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Title
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Cecily Nicholson Clip 1
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Keyword
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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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Title
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Museum of Vancouver 5
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Keyword
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Mapping, City, Scale, Museums
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Date
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2018-01-24
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Description
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Image of a model of Vancouver viewed from above.
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Title
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Stanley Park Video 6
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Date
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2018-01-31
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Description
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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
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Title
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Singapore Maritime Gallery 13
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Keyword
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Industry, Preservation
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Parchment wall with images of shipping containers through the years from the 1300s to the present day.
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Title
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Singapore City Gallery 1
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Keyword
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Culture, Mixed Media Art
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Date
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2018-02-25
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Description
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Three statues of women with yokes over their shoulders carrying baskets.
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Title
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Labrador Park 37
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Keyword
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Landscape / Skyline, Park, Industry
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Date
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2018-02-25
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Description
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Grass with trees on the right-hand side with harbour cranes in the background.
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Title
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Roadway 5
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Keyword
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Culture, Surveillance
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Date
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2018-02-28
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Description
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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.
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Title
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Singapore Maritime Gallery 11
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Keyword
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Colonisation, Education, Preservation
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Parchment wall section titled "The Treaties of 1819 and 1824."
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Title
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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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Title
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Labrador Park 73
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Keyword
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Surveillance, shore
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Date
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2018-02-25
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Description
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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."
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Title
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Nuraliah Norasid 3: Clip 3
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Keyword
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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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Title
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Polygon Gallery 1
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Keyword
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Art, Perspective
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Date
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2018-02-01
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Description
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Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography" from the bottom of a set of stairs.
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Title
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West Kowloon 13
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Keyword
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Trees, Development, Ecology, City
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Date
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2018-03-17
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Description
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Image of thin trees with buildings in the background.
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Title
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Wayde Compton Clip 3
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Keyword
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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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Title
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Portside Park Video 1
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Keyword
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City, Movement
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Date
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2018-01-30
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Description
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Video by Terminal Avenue in Vancouver looking out the window at the buildings as the SkyTrain moves past them. Duration: 0:32
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Title
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Kusu Island 33
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Keyword
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Sand
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy beach.
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Title
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Kitsilano Beach 24
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Keyword
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Sand, Particles, Shells, Shore
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Date
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2018-01-24
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Description
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Image of sand, small shells, and very small rocks.
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Title
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Polygon Gallery 5
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Keyword
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Knowledge, Art
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Date
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2018-02-01
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Description
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Image of a wall providing information about the N. Vancouver exhibition.
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Title
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Intertidal Polyphonies
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Jason Wee 3: Clip 3
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Keyword
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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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Title
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Waterfront Station 2
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Keyword
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Movement, Transportation, City
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Date
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2018-02-01
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Description
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Image of trains and train tracks with city skyline along the right side.
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Title
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Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
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Keyword
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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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Keyword
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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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Singapore Maritime Gallery 8
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Keyword
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Education, Mapping
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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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--").
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Title
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Kusu Island 37
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Keyword
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Landscape / Skyline, shore, Sand, boundary
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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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.
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Title
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Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
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Keyword
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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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Keyword
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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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Title
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Museum of Vancouver 9
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Keyword
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Mapping, Resources, Imperialism, Museums
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Date
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2018-01-24
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Description
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Image of a map of Western British Columbia naming the province "GOLD COUNTRY" and "THE NEW EL DORADO."
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Title
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Water Tour Video 24
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Keyword
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Waves, Waves, Movement
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Date
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2018-03-13
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Description
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Video of slightly foamy water beside the ferry. Duration: 00:17
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Title
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False Creek 64
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Keyword
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Advertising, City, Ecology
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Date
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2018-01-22
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Description
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Image of the side of a building advertising "The Arc" with imagery of the False Creek area.
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Title
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Water Tour Video 12
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Keyword
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City
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Date
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2018-03-13
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Description
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Video of boats and ships on the water; the ferry turns so that the city skyline comes into view from the left side at about 00:06. Duration: 00:19
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Title
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Singapore Maritime Gallery 18
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Keyword
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Industry, economy, Education
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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White wall with a section about "The Expansion of Jurong Port."
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Title
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Labrador Park 74
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Keyword
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Culture
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Date
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2018-02-25
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Description
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A sign detailing some of the history of the Twin Fortresses.
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Title
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Canada Place Video 10
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Keyword
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Sky, Clouds
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Date
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2018-01-26
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Description
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Video looking up at the clouds. Duration: 0:06
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Title
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Tower Beach 6
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Keyword
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Rocks, Trees
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Date
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2018-02-02
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Description
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Image of small rocks on top of and surrounding logs.
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Title
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Singapore Maritime Gallery 10
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Keyword
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Mapping, Preservation, Education
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Old map of the "Straits of Malacca."
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Title
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Kusu Island 36
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Keyword
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shore, Sand
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy shore.
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Title
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Kitsilano Beach 37
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Keyword
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Sand, Particles, Shells, Shore
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Date
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2018-01-24
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Description
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Image of sand, small shells, and very small rocks.
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Title
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Leung Chi Wo 1: Clip 1
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Keyword
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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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Singapore Maritime Gallery 22
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Keyword
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Industry, Mapping, transnational trade
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Photo taken looking through a shipping container. A world map with additional information to the left, the words "You are standing in an actual 20 foot container" on the right.
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Title
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Labrador Park 75
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Keyword
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Culture
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Date
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2018-02-25
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Description
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A sign with information about Admiral Keppel and "the Pirates."
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Title
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New Object
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Title
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Singapore Maritime Gallery 7
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Keyword
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Education, Mapping
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Description
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Close-up of the map under "The Travels of Wang Duyuan" section on the 'parchment' styled wall.
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