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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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: Victoria Harbour Audio 1
Keyword: City, Sounds
Date: 2018-03-10
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at Victoria Harbour. Duration: 0:39

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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

Title: East Coast Park Audio 2
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: 1:09

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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