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Canada Place Audio 1
Title
Canada Place Audio 1
Keyword
City, Coast, Boats
Date
2018-01-26
Description
Audio of the ambient sounds at Canada Place, including engine sounds and people talking. Duration: 1:00
Charles Lim 5
Title
Charles Lim 5: Clip 5
Keyword
Communication, Censorship, Culture
Date
2018-02-26
Description
Charles Lim discusses anxiety as a cultural phenomenon for Singaporean artists and talks about the importance of continual dialogue between opposing opinions regarding social change.
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Reading
Title
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Reading: "Khalifa" and "100 Plastic Containers for Human Corpses" from Port of Being
Keyword
Waterways, Environmental Degradation, Economy
Date
2018-01-28
Description
In this audio recording, Shazia Hafiz Ramji reads two poems from her debut poetry collection, Port of Being (winner of the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry). She reads "Khalifa" and "100 Plastic Containers for Human Corpses." Both poems consider global economic trade and policy and the intersections of those realities with lived human experiences and digital expressions of lived experience.
Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 4
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.
Cloe Lai Interview
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.
Jordan Abel Interview 1
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.
Robert Zhao 4
Title
Robert Zhao 4: Clip 4
Keyword
Photography, Sand
Date
2018-03-06
Description
Robert Zhao and Joanne Leow talk about Zhao's photographic work and how it imitates the relationship reclaimed land has to time and scale.
Wayde Compton Reading
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.
Jeremy Tiang 1
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).
Jordan Abel Interview 3
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).
Phinder Dulai Clip 1
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.
Robert Zhao 1
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.
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.
Cindy Mochizuki Clip 3
Title
Cindy Mochizuki Clip 3
Keyword
Art, History, Space, Audio, Displacement
Date
2019-06-07
Description
This final clip of the interview discusses translating history into art and the use of multiple media forms in Mochizuki’s projects. She comments on her position as an artist and how it influences her representation of history in her work. The conversation then shifts to the role of audio in creating a space for the audience to stop and think.
Nuraliah Norasid 2
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.
Wayde Compton Clip 4
Title
Wayde Compton Clip 4
Keyword
Advertisement, Language, Power, Manipulation, Government
Date
2018-01-23
Description
In this final clip of the interview, Compton discusses the nature of the conclusion to The Outer Harbour. It then shifts to a discussion of land claims and diasporic and Indigenous politics, and the experience of writing within such a political landscape.
Jordan Abel Reading
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.
Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
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.
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.
Jeremy Tiang 2
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.
West Kowloon Audio 1
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
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.
Juria Toramae 2
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.