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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: 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: Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
Keyword: Water, Waves, Shore, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Audio of the sound of the waves hitting the shore at Tower Beach. Duration: 0:41

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: Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Poetic Intervention, Surveillance, Water
Date: 2018-01-28
Description: In this clip, Shazia Hafiz Ramji discusses the circumstances of beginning to write Port of Being, her debut poetry collection and winner of the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She recounts a story of seeing a child interact with a public transit cop and how she noticed the various forms of surveillance in such a public space. She also describes visiting the Teck Gallery, where she wrote most of the poems in her collection. At the time of this interview, Ramji's collection was not yet released.

Title: Cecily Nicholson Interview: Clip 1
Keyword: Poetics, Individual, Collective, Art, Space, Materials, History, Land, Fragmented
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: Cecily Nicholson talks about her role in art--in particular her concern with space. The conversation then shifts to a discussion on poetics. Nicholson discusses the complex relationship between individuality and collectivity and how she confronts it within her own work.

Title: Phinder Dulai Clip 2
Keyword: Ports, Geography, Multicultural, Space, Asian-Canadian, Movement, Globalization, Water, Transnational
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: In this second clip to the interview, the conversation starts with a discussion of Vancouver as a multicultural place. In turn, this leads into the spaces of ports and ships and global infrastructure of such a space.

Title: Clara Chow Reading Excerpts from “The Wheel”
Keyword: Space, Nation, Economy, Myth, Politics
Date: 2018-02-23
Description: Clara Chow reads excerpts from her short story “The Wheel” from Dream Storeys. The story ties together themes of economy, space, politics, and nationhood that all come together in Chow's reading of the text.

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: Cindy Mochizuki Clip 1
Keyword: Site-specific, Memory, Migration, Space, Water, Ecology, Family, Boat, Globalization, Displacement
Date: 2019-06-07
Description: In this clip, visual artist Cindy Mochizuki comments on her work called Paper. Mochizuki outlines the inspiration and history of this project and this discussion leads to topics of space, globalization, ecology, memory, and the trans-Pacific.

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: 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: Guadalupe Martinez Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Mixed Media Art, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Guadalupe Martinez talks about how both found objects and poetics function in her performance art. She explains that the title of her performances are integral components to the performance. She also emphasises that the found objects she uses have inherent meanings that bring a depth and clarity to her work and serve to create emotion connections.

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: Wayde Compton Clip 1
Keyword: Space, Instability, Maps, Surtsey
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: This clip starts with a discussion of Compton's book The Outer Harbour. More specifically, the idea of imagining Canadian spaces being in flux and how Compton’s imagining of spaces is connected to his personal history.

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: 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: 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: 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: Robert Zhao 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-03-06
Description: Robert Zhao recollects how he used to walk for hours on reclaimed land, when the new sand was unstable marsh land before it settled enough to develop.

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: Labrador Park Audio 3
Keyword: Water, Waves, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Audio of ambient sounds at Labrador Park, including the sound of waves hitting the shore. Duration: 0:42

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: Jeremy Tiang 2: Clip 2
Keyword: transnational trade, Landscape / Skyline, Coast, economy
Date: 2018-01-03
Description: Jeremy Tiang and Joanne Leow discuss how land reclamation has and continues to shape Singapore's boundaries and how capitalism propels this process.

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.

Title: Jordan Abel Reading: "Of his own volition..." from The Place of Scraps
Keyword: Totem Poles, Poetic Intervention
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this audio clip, Nisga'a writer Jordan Abel reads a short excerpt from his poetry collection Place of Scraps. The collection as a whole interrogates Marius Barbeau's role as an ethnographer in the early twentieth-century, and this scene in particular focuses on a totem pole moved from the Nass River Valley (Northern British Columbia) to a museum in Toronto as part of Barbeau's project.

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: 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: Stanley Park Audio 4
Keyword: Sounds, Water, Waves, Movement, Coast, City
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Audio of the sound of the water and the wind at Stanley Park. Duration:0:32

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Audio 3
Keyword: Water, Waves, Sounds
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Audio of wave sounds. Duration: 0:44

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

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: 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

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