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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: Stanley Park 33
Keyword: Rocks, Water, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of large rock partly covered in plant life and mostly submerged in shallow water.

Title: Marina Barrage Video 1
Keyword: Water, Construction, Industry, Coast, Ships, Boats
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Video of a view of a construction site on Marina East from Marina Barrage. At about 0:33, the camera zooms in to provide a clearer view of the crane and trucks. Ships and boats on the ocean are visible in the background. Duration: 1:00

Title: Stanley Park 53
Keyword: Water, Boats, City, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of water, docked boats, and city skyline with tree branches in the foreground at the top of the shot.

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: Marina Barrage Video 5
Keyword: Water, Construction, City, Skyline, Boats, Ships
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Video of the view of Marina East from Marina Barrage that includes the dam and the construction site. Duration: 0:18

Title: Stanley Park 67
Keyword: Shore, Coast, Rocks, Water, City
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of rock shore by Vancouver Seawall with Canada Place across the water in the background.

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 15
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Architecture, Economy
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video as the Singapore River Cruise boat passes by the Fullerton Bay Hotel; tall buildings are visible in the background. Duration: 0:49

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: False Creek 55
Keyword: Shore, Ecology, Water
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of plant life on the rocky shore of False Creek.

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: False Creek Video 6
Keyword: Water, Boats, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Video of a single boat moving slowly on the water with buildings and Cambie Bridge in the background. Duration 0:52

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: East Coast Park 28
Keyword: Water, Land Reclamation, Rocks, Coast
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Ocean water surrounding the rounded edge of a rock jut.

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: Portside Park Video 2
Keyword: Water, Coast, Boats, Sounds, Birds, Shipping Industry, Harbour
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Video of boats at a dock by some small buildings on the water by Portside Park. Harbour cranes are visible in the background on the right side. Duration: 0:45

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: Polygon Gallery 1
Keyword: Art, Perspective
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography" from the bottom of a set of stairs.

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: Wayde Compton Clip 3
Keyword: Ecosystem, Land, Law, Power, Language
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: This section of the interview starts by discussing the way Compton integrates multiple genres into his works. The conversation then ties in the topic of genre theory with a discussion of discourse and language use.

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

Title: Portside Park Video 1
Keyword: City, Movement
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Video by Terminal Avenue in Vancouver looking out the window at the buildings as the SkyTrain moves past them. Duration: 0:32

Title: Kusu Island 33
Keyword: Sand
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy beach.

Title: East Coast Park Video 1
Keyword: Water, Ships, Boats, Coast
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Video of the ocean with ships and boats in the background. The camera zooms out at about 0:21. Duration: 1:09

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

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: Polygon Gallery 5
Keyword: Knowledge, Art
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of a wall providing information about the N. Vancouver exhibition.

Title: Intertidal Polyphonies

Title: Kusu Island 45
Keyword: Land Reclamation, shore, Surveillance, Sand, Rocks, boundary, Coast, Water, Industry
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Trees, grass, and rocks to the right. Surveillance camera mounted on a stand on the shore. Ocean and ships in the background.

Title: Kitsilano Beach Video 5
Keyword: Water, Birds, Rocks, Coast
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Video of water against a shore of large rocks in Kitsilano Beach; a lone bird floats by and then dives underwater in the background at 0:27. Duration: 0:36

Title: Stanley Park 51
Keyword: Water, Shore, Coast, Movement
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of a small set of stairs from the path along Vancouver Seawall down to the shore.

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 18
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Boats, Economy
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video looking behind the boat showing a farther shot of the tall buildings behind the Fullerton Bay Hotel. Another boat is visible on the river. Duration: 0:30

Title: Stanley Park 21
Keyword: Rocks, Shore, Water
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of small rocks on a muddy shore.

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: 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

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: Waterfront Station 2
Keyword: Movement, Transportation, City
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of trains and train tracks with city skyline along the right side.

Title: Labrador Park 22
Keyword: Rocks, Water, Coast
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Wide shot of waves on rocky shore.

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.

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