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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 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Industry, Islands
Date: 2018-02-24
Description: Juria Toramae discusses the uses of Singapore's off-shore islands and how her art work attempts to make people aware of how the islands have been shaped by Singapore's growing economic power.

Title: Leung Chi Wo 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Multiplicity, Physicality, Architecture, History, Reincarnation, Hong Kong, Urban Development, Development, Land Reclamation, Preservation, Political Change, Power, Water, Memory, Victoria Harbour, Migration, Photography
Date: 2018-03-12
Description: In this second part of the interview, Leung Chi Wo discusses the connection of architecture and localized history as an agent for his artwork. He then comments on the evolving and shifting coastline of Hong Kong, and how the pace of urbanization tends to overlook the historical context of the land—engaging with the complex relationship between urban development and preservation.

Title: Labrador Park Audio 2
Keyword: Water, Waves, Birds, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Audio of ambient sounds at Labrador Park, including waves hitting the shore and birds singing. Duration: 1:17

Title: Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 1
Keyword: Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046
Date: 2018-03-15
Description: This audio recording introduces the Dark Fluid Collective through a brief discussion on how and why water ties all the stories in the anthology together. It then moves into discussing how such a symbol is important to Hong Kong.

Title: Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 4
Keyword: Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046
Date: 2018-03-15
Description: This clip focuses on the role of architecture and city spaces within Hong Kong. The artists comment on the impact of emerging city spaces and land reclamation—in particular how these spaces will effect the art community.

Title: Cloe Lai Interview
Keyword: Control, Storytelling, Urban Space, Interaction, Sustainability, Built Environment, Journalism, Policies, The Everyday, Urban Planning, Fishing, Land Reclamation, Voices, Coastline, Fish, Ecology, Anxiety, Political Climate, Oppression, Space, Development, Environment
Date: 2018-03-14
Description: In this interview, Cloe Lai discusses her experiences collecting everyday stories about human interaction with space. She then comments on how her background in journalism informs her view on the importance of everyday stories—and how these stories can fill the gap in understanding grand level projects such as land reclamation.

Title: Water Tour Audio 1
Keyword: Water, Sounds, Boats
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at a water tour ferry in Hong Kong, including people talking. Duration: 1:16

Title: Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 3: Clip 3
Keyword: economy, Water, Environmental Degradation
Date: 2018-01-28
Description: In this clip, Shazia Hafiz Ramji delves deeper into her inspirations for Port of Being. She explains that "Flags of Convenience" are flags of poor countries flown on corporate shipping vessels that allow these corporate ships to avoid certain fees, depending on where they port. This is contrasted with the reality that immigrants from the countries of those convenience flags are not readily accepted or welcomed into Western countries. Ramji ends by discussing how Foucault's concept of heterotopia impacted her understandings of the issues she grapples with in Port of Being.

Title: Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 3
Keyword: Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, Water
Date: 2018-03-15
Description: In this third clip, the conversation starts with the topic of science fiction and dystopian fiction and how it can be used to reflect on issues of our present day. The artists comment on what these genres means to them, leading into a discussion on both the cultural value and the self-exploration that goes along with writing these stories.

Title: West Kowloon Audio 2
Keyword: Water, City, Sounds
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Audio of ambient sounds at West Kowloon. Duration: 0:23

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Colonisation, Poetic Intervention
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this clip, Jordan Abel delves into his writing process for Place of Scraps, particularly how he came to use erasure techniques on Marius Barbeau's text Totem Poles. From this a discussion ensues on how readers can, or should, approach and read Place of Scraps. Abel's poetry makes use of fragmented words and images alongside more traditional narrative (for an example, please refer to Jordan Abel's Reading).

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: Dung Kai Chung Interview
Keyword: Mapping, Language, Symbols, Maps, Colonialism, Government, Discrepancies, Contruction of reality, Land Reclamation, Coastline, Reinvention, Projected Reality, Reshaping, Time, History, Future, Reformulation, Temporal Distance, Imagination, Hong Kong, Transnational, Nation, Interaction, Identity
Date: 2018-03-15
Description: This Audio recording discusses Dung Kai Chung’s Atlas and the interplay between maps and language. The interview shifts to how maps construct a reality of a place and the imaginative aspects of mapmaking. It then concludes with the topic of Hong Kong’s coastline and land reclamation and how these changes alter the perception of transnationalism within the space.

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: West Kowloon Audio 1
Keyword: City, Construction, Development, Industry, Sounds
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at a construction site in West Kowloon. Duration: 1:05

Title: Jeremy Tiang 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Place, Landscape / Skyline, transnational trade, Islands
Date: 2018-01-03
Description: Jeremy Tiang talks about his short story "National Day" and why he chose to write from a plural first person POV. He discusses the importance of his characters being migrant workers and how residents of Singapore relate to the islands of Singapore as place (or how they often do not).

Title: Nuraliah Norasid 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Re/development, liminality, Housing
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Nuraliah Norasid discusses the temporal shift in her novel, The Gatekeeper, and how it relates to her experience of Singapore's rapid development in the late twentieth century.

Title: Juria Toramae 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Industry, Islands, Environmental Degradation
Date: 2018-02-24
Description: Juria Toramae describes her experiences documenting the coastline around restricted islands. She mentioned the aquatic animals and the corporate development of specific islands.

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