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Cecily Nicholson Clip 1
Title
Cecily Nicholson Clip 1
Keyword
Poetry, Space, Ecology, History, Language, Mobility
Date
2019-06-06
Description
Nicholson touches on topics such as space, history, and poetics by discussing her own experiences working in art and writing.
Clarke Quay 8
Title
Clarke Quay 8: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword
erosion
Date
2018-03-01
Description
Stone wall and edge of Read Bridge / Malacca Bridge. Turquoise border visible on top.
Roadway 1
Title
Roadway 1
Keyword
Landscape / Skyline, Industry, Construction
Date
2018-02-25
Description
Trees along the road and a line of harbour cranes on the right side.
Portside Park 40
Title
Portside Park 40
Keyword
Barriers, Ecology, Shipping Industry
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of a rusting chainlink fence with shipping area and North Vancouver in the background.
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.
Downtown Eastside Vancouver 2
Title
Downtown Eastside Vancouver 2: Alexander Street and Gore Avenue
Keyword
City, Roads, Shipping Industry, Movement, Ecology
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of the intersection of Alexander Street and Gore Avenue with shipping cranes and containers in the background.
Roadway 2
Title
Roadway 2
Keyword
boundary, Mapping
Date
2018-02-25
Description
Photo taken from inside a car. Looking through the windscreen at the road.
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.
Water Tour 81
Title
Water Tour 81
Keyword
Cemetery, Landscape, Forest
Date
2018-03-13
Description
Close-up image of Junk Bay Chinese Permanent Cemetery on the mountain side.
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."
West Kowloon 59
Title
West Kowloon 59
Keyword
Barriers, Movement, Advertising, City
Date
2018-03-17
Description
Image of a path with fencing on either side and with advertising on the fencing on the right side.
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
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.
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.
Labrador Park 46
Title
Labrador Park 46
Keyword
Landscape / Skyline, Industry, transnational trade, economy
Date
2018-02-25
Description
Thin strip of ocean in the immediate foreground with many boats and harbour cranes in the middle ground. Part of a white building visible to the left.
Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
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.
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
Water Tour 63
Title
Water Tour 63
Keyword
Skyline, Construction, Boats, Cityscape
Date
2018-03-13
Description
Boats docked in front of highrise buildings with construction cranes visable in the top right.
Canada Place Video 10
Title
Canada Place Video 10
Keyword
Sky, Clouds
Date
2018-01-26
Description
Video looking up at the clouds. Duration: 0:06
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.
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.
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.
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.
Water Tour 60
Title
Water Tour 60
Keyword
Land Reclamation, Boats, Construction, Cityscape, Skyline
Date
2018-03-13
Description
A boat moving across the water with a construction site and the cityscape in the distance.
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.