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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: Water Tour Video 3
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Video moving away from the Central Ferry Piers until they are out of the shot on the right side. Hong Kong Observation Wheel is visible with city skyline in the background. Duration: 00:49

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: Water Tour Video 2
Keyword: Water, City, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Video moving away from the the Central Ferry Pier on the right side until it is out of the shot at about 00:28. The city skyline is visible across the water with the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on the left side. Duration: 00:35

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 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: 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 River Cruise Video 10
Keyword: Water, Movement
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video focusing on the water behind the boat as it moves through the Singapore River. Duration: 0:17

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 19
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Art, Culture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video passing closely by the ArtScience Museum; tall buildings are visible across the river in the background before the camera pans past the museum to show a closer shot of Marina Bay Sands. Duration: 0:23

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Video 10
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Industry, Movement
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the city skyline with the water movement caused by the ferry visible in the bottom right corner of the shot. Duration: 0:10

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 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: 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: 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: Water Tour Video 14
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Mountains
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Video as the ferry moves past the Central Ferry Piers until they are mostly out of view on the right side. Water and city skyline are visible in the background with Hong Kong Observation Wheel on the right side. Duration: 00:14

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: 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: 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: 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: Singapore Maritime Gallery 56
Keyword: Water, Industry, liminality
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Piers and ships on the ocean outside the gallery.

Title: Rita Wong Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Water, Poetic Intervention, Culture, Preservation, Embodiment
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Rita Wong explains that she hopes to foster empathy and generate cultural change through her poetry.

Title: Marina Barrage Audio 2
Keyword: Water, Waves, Birds, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at Marina Barrage, including the sound of waves and birds singing. Duration: 0:50

Title: Stanley Park Video 17
Keyword: Water, Coast, City, Rocks
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Video of rocks in the water in Stanley Park near Hallelujah Point; Canada Place and harbour cranes are visible in the background. Duration: 0:16

Title: St. John's Island Video 4
Keyword: Water, City, Landscape / Skyline, Trees
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the city skyline from St. John's Island. Duration: 0:35

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: Canada Place Video 1
Keyword: Water, Skyline, Helicopters, Mountains, Coast
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Video looking across the water towards North Vancouver as a helicopter flies by; Stanley Park is visible on the left side. Duration: 0:56

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 14
Keyword: Water, City, Architecture, Art, Culture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of Marina Bay Sands and ArtScience Museum. At around 0:16, the camera pans left to re-include the museum in the shot. Duration: 0:37

Title: Labrador Park 77
Keyword: Water, Industry, Coast
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Red buoy on the ocean with ships in the background.

Title: Vancouver Harbour 117
Keyword: Water, Distance, City
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of Vancouver Harbour with North Vancouver across the water in the background.

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