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Polygon Gallery 4
Title
Polygon Gallery 4
Keyword
Art, Language, Shape
Date
2018-02-01
Description
Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography."
Singapore Maritime Gallery 51
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.
Museum of Vancouver 1
Title
Museum of Vancouver 1
Keyword
Museums, Language, Musqueam Knowledge, Relationality
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a white wall with a welcoming message in the Musqueam language as well as in English and French.
Cecily Nicholson Clip 1
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.
Singapore Maritime Gallery 48
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.
Portside Park 40
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.
Museum of Vancouver 5
Title
Museum of Vancouver 5
Keyword
Mapping, City, Scale, Museums
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a model of Vancouver viewed from above.
Stanley Park Video 6
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
Labrador Park 37
Title
Labrador Park 37
Keyword
Landscape / Skyline, Park, Industry
Date
2018-02-25
Description
Grass with trees on the right-hand side with harbour cranes in the background.
Roadway 5
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.
Singapore Maritime Gallery 11
Title
Singapore Maritime Gallery 11
Keyword
Colonisation, Education, Preservation
Date
2018-03-01
Description
Parchment wall section titled "The Treaties of 1819 and 1824."
Juria Toramae 4
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.
Labrador Park 73
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."
Charles Lim 4
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."
Nuraliah Norasid 3
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.
Victoria Harbour Audio 1
Title
Victoria Harbour Audio 1
Keyword
City, Sounds
Date
2018-03-10
Description
Audio of the ambient sounds at Victoria Harbour. Duration: 0:39
Polygon Gallery 1
Title
Polygon Gallery 1
Keyword
Art, Perspective
Date
2018-02-01
Description
Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography" from the bottom of a set of stairs.
West Kowloon 13
Title
West Kowloon 13
Keyword
Trees, Development, Ecology, City
Date
2018-03-17
Description
Image of thin trees with buildings in the background.
Wayde Compton Clip 3
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.
Portside Park Video 1
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
Kusu Island 33
Title
Kusu Island 33
Keyword
Sand
Date
2018-03-01
Description
Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy beach.
Polygon Gallery 5
Title
Polygon Gallery 5
Keyword
Knowledge, Art
Date
2018-02-01
Description
Image of a wall providing information about the N. Vancouver exhibition.
Intertidal Polyphonies
Title
Intertidal Polyphonies
Jason Wee 3
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.
Waterfront Station 2
Title
Waterfront Station 2
Keyword
Movement, Transportation, City
Date
2018-02-01
Description
Image of trains and train tracks with city skyline along the right side.
Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
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.
Jordan Abel Interview 4
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.
TELUS World of Science 9
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.
Singapore Maritime Gallery 8
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--").
Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
Title
Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
Keyword
Ecology, Natural World, Poetry, Mobility, Culture, Settler, Language, Economy, Identity, Space, Diasporic, History
Date
2019-06-06
Description
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.
Jason Wee 1
Title
Jason Wee 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Embodiment, Photography, Mixed Media Art
Date
2018-02-23
Description
Jason Wee discusses his artistic practice and how he moves between mediums.
Water Tour Video 24
Title
Water Tour Video 24
Keyword
Waves, Waves, Movement
Date
2018-03-13
Description
Video of slightly foamy water beside the ferry. Duration: 00:17
Water Tour Video 12
Title
Water Tour Video 12
Keyword
City
Date
2018-03-13
Description
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
Labrador Park 74
Title
Labrador Park 74
Keyword
Culture
Date
2018-02-25
Description
A sign detailing some of the history of the Twin Fortresses.
TELUS World of Science 8
Title
TELUS World of Science 8
Keyword
Earth, Waste
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.
Leung Chi Wo 1: Clip 1
Title
Leung Chi Wo 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Narrative, Memory, History, Editied Truth, Power, Personal, Collective, Objects, nostalgia, Commercialization, Commodification
Date
2018-03-12
Description
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.
Singapore Maritime Gallery 22
Title
Singapore Maritime Gallery 22
Keyword
Industry, Mapping, transnational trade
Date
2018-03-01
Description
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.
Labrador Park 75
Title
Labrador Park 75
Keyword
Culture
Date
2018-02-25
Description
A sign with information about Admiral Keppel and "the Pirates."
New Object
Title
New Object
West Kowloon 6
Title
West Kowloon 6
Keyword
Construction, Development, Sand, City
Date
2018-03-17
Description
Image of a construction site with city skyline in the background.
Water Tour Video 29
Title
Water Tour Video 29
Keyword
Shipping Industry, Ships, City
Date
2018-03-13
Description
Video of a ship carrying sand. Cranes and buildings are visible in the background. Duration: 00:05
Nuraliah Norasid 1
Title
Nuraliah Norasid 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Re/development, Gentrification, Planning & Design, Housing
Date
2018-02-27
Description
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.
Clara Chow 2
Title
Clara Chow 2: Clip 2
Keyword
Anxiety, Architecture, Environmental Degradation, Official Narratives
Date
2018-02-23
Description
Clara Chow discusses how she resists official Singaporean narratives of progress through her writing and assuages personal anxieties about space / purpose / production through crocheting.
Singapore Maritime Gallery 12
Title
Singapore Maritime Gallery 12
Keyword
Industry, Education, Culture
Date
2018-03-01
Description
Parchment wall section titled "Singapore's Unprecedented Growth" with a quote from Abdullah about shipping.
East Coast Park 69
Title
East Coast Park 69
Keyword
Sand, Land Reclamation, liminality, boundary
Date
2018-02-27
Description
Area where grass turns into a sandy beach. A thin white and red striped tape is attached to a traffic cone.
Robert Zhao 2
Title
Robert Zhao 2: Clip 2
Keyword
Documentation, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date
2018-03-06
Description
Robert Zhao and Joanne Leow discuss the space of reclaimed land and how Singaporeans negotiate that space as potential and void.