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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: Labrador Park 46
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Industry, transnational trade, economy
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Thin strip of ocean in the immediate foreground with many boats and harbour cranes in the middle ground. Part of a white building visible to the left.

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.

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.

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.

Title: Museum of Vancouver 9
Keyword: Mapping, Resources, Imperialism, Museums
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a map of Western British Columbia naming the province "GOLD COUNTRY" and "THE NEW EL DORADO."

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

Title: False Creek 64
Keyword: Advertising, City, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of the side of a building advertising "The Arc" with imagery of the False Creek area.

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

Title: Water Tour 63
Keyword: Skyline, Construction, Boats, Cityscape
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Boats docked in front of highrise buildings with construction cranes visable in the top right.

Title: Downtown Vancouver Skyline 6: As Seen from Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of the city skyline behind the Residence Inn Hotel in the early morning.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 18
Keyword: Industry, economy, Education
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: White wall with a section about "The Expansion of Jurong Port."

Title: Labrador Park 74
Keyword: Culture
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: A sign detailing some of the history of the Twin Fortresses.

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.

Title: Marina Barrage 12
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, economy
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: City skyline: Marina Bay Sands and Singapore Flyer Ferris Wheel visible.

Title: Canada Place Video 10
Keyword: Sky, Clouds
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Video looking up at the clouds. Duration: 0:06

Title: False Creek 61
Keyword: Shore, Ecology, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of a long log lying across the rocky shore of False Creek with the TELUS World of Science building in the background.

Title: West Kowloon 27
Keyword: Construction, Development, City
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Image of construction equipment with city skyline in the background.

Title: Downtown Vancouver 1: Near TELUS World of Science
Keyword: City, Art
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of statues of two men sitting on stools talking with Vancity Credit Union building in the background.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 10
Keyword: Mapping, Preservation, Education
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Old map of the "Straits of Malacca."

Title: Kusu Island 25
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Islands, Re/development, shore, Park
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Picnic table beside three trees near the shore. A rocky barrier and city skyline in the background.

Title: West Kowloon 1
Keyword: Construction, Sand, Development, City
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Image of a large construction site by Kowloon Ventilation Building with city skyline in the background.

Title: Kusu Island 36
Keyword: shore, Sand
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy shore.

Title: Kitsilano Beach 37
Keyword: Sand, Particles, Shells, Shore
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of sand, small shells, and very small rocks.

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.

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.

Title: Labrador Park 33
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Industry, Park
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Landscape shot of the park surrounding a beacon. Harbour cranes in the distant background on the left.

Title: Labrador Park 75
Keyword: Culture
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: A sign with information about Admiral Keppel and "the Pirates."

Title: New Object

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 7
Keyword: Education, Mapping
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Close-up of the map under "The Travels of Wang Duyuan" section on the 'parchment' styled wall.

Title: Marina Barrage 2
Keyword: Industry, Landscape / Skyline, transnational trade, economy
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: City skyline with a view of Marina Bay Sands.

Title: Water Tour 60
Keyword: Land Reclamation, Boats, Construction, Cityscape, Skyline
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: A boat moving across the water with a construction site and the cityscape in the distance.

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.

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.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 15
Keyword: Industry, Education
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Model of a ship.

Title: TELUS World of Science 11
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: 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.

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.

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.

Title: West Kowloon 21
Keyword: Barriers, Construction, Sand, Development, City
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Image of various fencing around a construction site with city skyline in the background.

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.

Title: West Kowloon 18
Keyword: Infrastructure, Construction, Development, City
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Image of large pipes and construction debris with city skyline in the background.

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