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Title: Canada Place Audio 1
Keyword: City, Coast, Boats
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at Canada Place, including engine sounds and people talking. Duration: 1:00

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: Cindy Mochizuki Clip 2
Keyword: Space, Diaspora, Water, Transnationalism, History, Memory, Family, Site-Specific, Displacement
Date: 2019-06-07
Description: The second audio clip discusses the work’s use and layering of space. Mochizuki’s then comments on how her work connects to the ocean and water—leading to a discussion of the culture of diaspora, history, space, and transnationalism.

Title: Stanley Park Audio 1
Keyword: Sounds, City, Birds
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at Stanley Park, including various birds singing and people talking. Duration: 1:07

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this clip, Jordan Abel discusses his relationship to Vancouver as a place and how his family histories and traumas are tied to Vancouver and the legacy of colonial violence. He discusses the placement of Indigenous art throughout Vancouver (and the totem poles in Stanley Park in particular) and the complexities around displaying Indigenous art and tradition in such a public space, weighing accessibility against voyeurism.

Title: Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
Keyword: Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: Wayde Compton reads a scene from his short story "The Lost Island." In this scene, the characters Jean and Fletcher consider the newly emerged volcanic island off Vancouver's coast and Fletcher proposes they go to the island as an act of anti-colonisation. This story appears in Compton's 2014 book of interconnected short stories The Outer Harbour.

Title: Phinder Dulai Clip 1
Keyword: History, Poetry, Polyphony, Archives, Transnationalism, Archives, Colonial, Voices, Refugee, Reality
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: In this audio clip, Phinder Dulai discusses his work Dreams/Arteries. He comments on his use of archives, the form of poetry, refugees, and the polyphony of voices in his work.

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: 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: Wayde Compton Clip 4
Keyword: Advertisement, Language, Power, Manipulation, Government
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: In this final clip of the interview, Compton discusses the nature of the conclusion to The Outer Harbour. It then shifts to a discussion of land claims and diasporic and Indigenous politics, and the experience of writing within such a political landscape.

Title: Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
Keyword: Identity, Language, Poetry, History, Settler, Culture
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: In this final clip, Nicholson concludes her discussion on settler-colonialism and language use.

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