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Singapore Island Cruise Audio 1
Title
Singapore Island Cruise Audio 1
Keyword
Water, Boats, Sounds, Language
Date
2018-03-01
Description
Audio of the ambient sounds on the Singapore Island Cruise ferry, including creaking noises, engine vibrations, water sounds, and people chatting. Duration: 0:54
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.
Singapore Island Cruise Audio 2
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
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.
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.
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.
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."
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
Charles Lim 2
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).
Wayde Compton Clip 3
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.
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.
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.
West Kowloon Audio 3
Title
West Kowloon Audio 3
Keyword
Water, City, Sounds
Date
2018-03-17
Description
Audio of the ambient sounds at West Kowloon, including people talking, a dog barking, and water sounds. Duration: 0:47
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.
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.
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.