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Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 19
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Art, Culture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video passing closely by the ArtScience Museum; tall buildings are visible across the river in the background before the camera pans past the museum to show a closer shot of Marina Bay Sands. Duration: 0:23

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.

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: 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: 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: 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.

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 14
Keyword: Water, City, Architecture, Art, Culture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of Marina Bay Sands and ArtScience Museum. At around 0:16, the camera pans left to re-include the museum in the shot. Duration: 0:37

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.

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 20
Keyword: Water, Architecture, Culture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the Helix Bridge as the boat moves alongside it. Duration: 0:08

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.

Title: Labrador Park 75
Keyword: Culture
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: A sign with information about Admiral Keppel and "the Pirates."

Title: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre 3
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Water, liminality, Culture
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Nighttime shot of Marina Bay Sands and Esplanade Bridge. Many lights.

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