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Singapore Maritime Gallery 1
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.
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.
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.
Singapore Maritime Gallery 13
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.
Singapore City Gallery 1
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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--").
Kusu Island 37
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.
Singapore Maritime Gallery 31
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.
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
Singapore Maritime Gallery 18
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."
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.
Singapore Maritime Gallery 10
Title
Singapore Maritime Gallery 10
Keyword
Mapping, Preservation, Education
Date
2018-03-01
Description
Old map of the "Straits of Malacca."
Kusu Island 36
Title
Kusu Island 36
Keyword
shore, Sand
Date
2018-03-01
Description
Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy shore.
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
Singapore Maritime Gallery 7
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.
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.
Singapore Maritime Gallery 15
Title
Singapore Maritime Gallery 15
Keyword
Industry, Education
Date
2018-03-01
Description
Model of a ship.
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.