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

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: 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: 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: West Kowloon 13
Keyword: Trees, Development, Ecology, City
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Image of thin trees with buildings in the background.

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

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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.

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