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Portside Park 23
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.
Stanley Park 90
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.
Guadalupe Martinez Interview 1
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.
Phinder Dulai Clip 2
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.
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.
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.
Kitsilano Beach Video 2
Title
Kitsilano Beach Video 2
Keyword
Water, Birds, Ships, Boats
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Video of a group of birds on the water with ships and boats in the background. Duration 0:36
Kitsilano Beach Audio 2
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
Victoria Harbour 27
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.
West Kowloon Cultural District Video 17
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
Water Tour 7
Title
Water Tour 7
Keyword
Water, Boats, Cityscape, Skyline, Sky
Date
2018-03-13
Description
Sun shining through the clouds with the citscape to the left and the open water and boats to the right.
Water Tour 5
Title
Water Tour 5
Keyword
Water, Sky, Cityscape, Skyline
Date
2018-03-13
Description
Sun coming through the cloudy sky overlooking the cityscape.
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 1
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.
Lamma Island Video 12
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
Rita Wong Interview 1
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.
Cindy Mochizuki Clip 1
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.
Lamma Island Video 2
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
Stanley Park Video 26
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
Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
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
Star Ferry 42
Title
Star Ferry 42
Keyword
Land Reclamation, Water, Boats, Cityscape, Skyline
Date
2018-03-12
Description
Hong Kong's cityscape with a boat docked on the right.
Canada Place Video 5
Title
Canada Place Video 5
Keyword
Water, Coast, Boats, Mountains
Date
2018-01-26
Description
Video looking across the water towards Stanley Park. A boat moves towards the right side; another boat enters the shot from the right at about 0:25. Duration: 0:50
Water Tour 4
Title
Water Tour 4
Keyword
Water, CItyscape, Boats, Skyline
Date
2018-03-13
Description
A small fishing boat moving across the water with the cityscape in the background.
Portside Park 21
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.
Intertidal Polyphonies
Title
Intertidal Polyphonies
Star Ferry 5
Title
Star Ferry 5
Keyword
Water, Boats, Quotidian
Date
2018-03-12
Description
Image taken from the ferry of the water surronding the pier.
Canada Place Video 19
Title
Canada Place Video 19
Keyword
Water, Harbour, Ships, Boats, Shipping Industry, Mountains
Date
2018-01-26
Description
Video recorded on Canada Place, in Vancouver, containing a pier at the foreground, harbour cranes on the right, and ships by North Vancouver on the left side of the background. Duration: 0:47
Rita Wong Interview 2
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.
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.
Canada Place Video 1
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
Water Tour 11
Title
Water Tour 11
Keyword
Water, Forest, Ecological, Boats
Date
2018-03-13
Description
Image of the forested coastline.
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.
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
Stanley Park 80
Title
Stanley Park 80
Keyword
Water, Shipping Industry, Distance
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of water with shipping cranes in the background.
Kitsilano Beach Video 4
Title
Kitsilano Beach Video 4
Keyword
Water, Boats, Skyline, Skyline, Mountains, Birds
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Video of boats on the ocean with the West End city skyline in the background on the right and tree skyline in the background on the left. Duration: 0:44
Vancouver Harbour 113
Title
Vancouver Harbour 113
Keyword
Water, Barriers, Containment
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of water next to a pier. A fence with locks on it is visible at the bottom of the shot.
Canada Place Video 10
Title
Canada Place Video 10
Keyword
Sky, Clouds
Date
2018-01-26
Description
Video looking up at the clouds. Duration: 0:06
Kitsilano Beach Video 1
Title
Kitsilano Beach Video 1
Keyword
Water, Birds, Shore, Sand, Ships, Boats, Ecology
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Video of a group of birds on the water with sand shore in the foreground and ships and boats in the background. Duration 1:55
Water Tour Video 25
Title
Water Tour Video 25
Keyword
Water, Coast, Mountains, Skyline
Date
2018-03-13
Description
Video of a village by the water at the bottom of a tree-covered mountain. Duration: 00:54
Stanley Park Audio 3
Title
Stanley Park Audio 3
Keyword
Sounds, Water, Waves, Movement
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Audio of the sound of the water at Stanley Park. Duration: 0:59
Victoria Harbour Video 4
Title
Victoria Harbour Video 4
Keyword
Water, Waves
Date
2018-03-10
Description
Video of blue sea water. Duration: 0:33
Star Ferry Video 5
Title
Star Ferry Video 5
Keyword
Water, Waves, Movement
Date
2018-03-12
Description
Video of foamy sea-green waves caused by the movement of the ferry. Duration: 00:18
Portside Park 24
Title
Portside Park 24
Keyword
Shipping Industry, Boats, Water, Shore
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of boats, shipping cranes, and shipping containers with rock shore visible in the bottom right corner of the shot.
Canada Place Video 4
Title
Canada Place Video 4
Keyword
Water, Ships, Boats, Birds, Mountains
Date
2018-01-26
Description
Video of ships on the water with harbour cranes and Canada Place on the right side. A boat enters the shot from the right at about 0:38. Duration: 1:36
Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 2
Title
Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 2
Keyword
Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046, Water
Date
2018-03-15
Description
The previous discussion on the metaphor of water is continued in this clip. The interview then turns to comment on how water can lead to a conversation on political and social uncertainty—a theme that is very pressing in regards to the changing landscape of Hong Kong.
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.
Portside Park 11
Title
Portside Park 11
Keyword
Ecology, Boats, Water, Shipping Industry
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of grass by the shore and docked boats with shipping cranes in the background.
New Object
Title
New Object
West Kowloon Cultural District Video 15
Title
West Kowloon Cultural District Video 15
Keyword
Water, Shore, Barriers, Rocks, Landscape / Skyline, Trees
Date
2018-03-17
Description
Video of rocks by the water with fencing and trees on the left side; the city skyline and a moving boat are visible in the background. Duration: 00:06
Vancouver Harbour 6
Title
Vancouver Harbour 6
Keyword
Water, Distance
Date
2018-01-26
Description
Image of Vancouver Harbour with North Vancouver--including pile of yellow sulphur powder--across the water.