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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Reading: "Khalifa" and "100 Plastic Containers for Human Corpses" from Port of Being
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Waterways, Environmental Degradation, Economy
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2018-01-28
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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.
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Charles Lim 2: Clip 2
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Foreshores Act, Water, Visual Art, Mixed Media Art
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2018-02-26
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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).
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Charles Lim 1: Clip 1
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Water, Sailing
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2018-02-26
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Charles Lim recounts childhood experiences that helped shape his engagements with the sea in his SEA STATE projects.
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Guadalupe Martinez Interview 1: Clip 1
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Embodiment, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention, Water
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2018-01-30
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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.
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Jason Wee 1: Clip 1
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Embodiment, Photography, Mixed Media Art
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2018-02-23
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Jason Wee discusses his artistic practice and how he moves between mediums.
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Guadalupe Martinez Interview 3: Clip 3
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Education, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention, Embodiment
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2018-01-30
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Guadalupe Martinez discusses her recent thoughts about embodiment, performance, and pedagogy. She asserts that embodied performance is a way to communicate a multiplicity of narratives in a single space that promotes a form of knowing more visceral than traditional / institutionalised learning.
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Guadalupe Martinez Interview 2: Clip 2
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Mixed Media Art, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention
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2018-01-30
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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.
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Guadalupe Martinez Reading: Excerpt from Her Syllabus for a Course on Performance Art
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Performance Art, Education
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2018-01-30
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In this audio recording, Guadalupe Martinez reads a section from her course syllabus on Performance Art. She taught this course at UBC in 2018, and the questions she raises on this syllabus are questions reflected in her creative works (discussed in her interviews). Martinez stresses the overlap of poetics and politics in performance art and how the embodiment of such ideas contributes to larger discussions. However, she also notes that performance art is being changed by its recent acceptance into more dominant / mainstream culture and academia, and that these changes impact how performance art functions in relation to poetry and politics.
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Charles Lim 3: Clip 3
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Coast, Environmental Degradation, Foreshores Act, Water
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2018-02-26
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Charles Lim discusses Singapore's Foreshores Act and the process of reclamation. He talks about how the coastline has changed over the course of his life.
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Charles Lim 4: Clip 4
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Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
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2018-02-26
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Charles Lim talks about land reclamation and his SEA STATE project "Inside / Outside."
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Charles Lim 5: Clip 5
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Communication, Censorship, Culture
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2018-02-26
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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.
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Clara Chow 2: Clip 2
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Anxiety, Architecture, Environmental Degradation, Official Narratives
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2018-02-23
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Clara Chow discusses how she resists official Singaporean narratives of progress through her writing and assuages personal anxieties about space / purpose / production through crocheting.
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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 3: Clip 3
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economy, Water, Environmental Degradation
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2018-01-28
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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.
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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 2: Clip 2
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economy, Water, Environmental Degradation, transnational trade
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2018-01-28
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Shazia Hafiz Ramji and Dr. Joanne Leow have a conversation about the ideas of bodies of water and human bodies, particularly regarding transportation and transnational flow. This progresses to a discussion about waterfront development and the way condo developers co-opt artistic / poetic language and use of imagery to sell properties.
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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 4: Clip 4
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Articulation, Poetic Intervention
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2018-01-28
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Shazia Hafiz Ramji addresses her responsibility as a poet to articulate the complexities of space and places. She acknowledges the difficulty of accurate articulation, but nonetheless advocates in favour of such an attempt as articulation enables changes.
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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 1: Clip 1
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Poetic Intervention, Surveillance, Water
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2018-01-28
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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.
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Jason Wee 3: Clip 3
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Planning & Design, Colonisation, Mixed Media Art, Government Intervention
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2018-02-23
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Jason Wee explains the thought behind his art installation Labyrinths, with references to choreography, colonisation, and governmental planning.
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Jordan Abel Interview 4: Clip 4
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Landscape / Skyline
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2018-01-19
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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.
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Jordan Abel Interview 3: Clip 3
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Landscape / Skyline, Colonisation, Poetic Intervention
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2018-01-19
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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).
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Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
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Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
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2018-01-19
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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.
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Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
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Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
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2018-01-23
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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.
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Jordan Abel Reading: "Of his own volition..." from The Place of Scraps
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Totem Poles, Poetic Intervention
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2018-01-19
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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.
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Rita Wong Reading: "Declaration of Intent" from Undercurrent
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liminality, Water, Sustainability
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2018-02-01
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Rita Wong reads her poem "Declaration of Intent" from her collection Undercurrent. This poem refutes colonial boundaries and maps, and instead prioritises the boundaries created by waterways above and below ground. Water is treated as a guide and a connection between human bodies and the often forgotten or abused environments.
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Jordan Abel Interview 2: Clip 2
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Inter-generational Trauma, Landscape / Skyline, Colonisation
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2018-01-19
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Jordan Abel discusses his fraught position as a both a displaced Nisga'a and urban Indigenous person. He muses on the idea of a "pan-Indigenous" community where displaced indigenous peoples could gather and recognise their shared inter-generational traumas while creating a space of belonging. Abel maintains that the goal is to "get back to community" and "get back to the land," but acknowledges that doing so is often difficult or the ways to do so are obscured.
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Jeremy Tiang 3: Clip 3
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economy, Surveillance, Social Status
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2018-01-03
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Jeremy Tiang talks about the social and status stratification within Singapore and how the government enforces certain boundaries between various people in relation to his depictions of migrant workers in "National Day."
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Jeremy Tiang 2: Clip 2
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transnational trade, Landscape / Skyline, Coast, economy
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2018-01-03
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Jeremy Tiang and Joanne Leow discuss how land reclamation has and continues to shape Singapore's boundaries and how capitalism propels this process.
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Robert Zhao 3: Clip 3
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transnational trade, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
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2018-03-06
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Robert Zhao and Joanne Leow discuss the difficulty of comprehending the impact of land reclamation and how time and scale function on reclaimed land.
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Robert Zhao 1: Clip 1
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Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
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2018-03-06
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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.
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Robert Zhao 2: Clip 2
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Documentation, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
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2018-03-06
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Robert Zhao and Joanne Leow discuss the space of reclaimed land and how Singaporeans negotiate that space as potential and void.
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Robert Zhao 4: Clip 4
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Photography, Sand
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2018-03-06
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Robert Zhao and Joanne Leow talk about Zhao's photographic work and how it imitates the relationship reclaimed land has to time and scale.
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Rita Wong Interview 3: Clip 3
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Water, Education, Government Intervention, Re/development
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2018-02-01
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Rita Wong talks about the relationships between bodies and land and her uncertainty regarding the term 'activist.' She also discusses the importance of naming as a way of generating empathy and education, specifically as this relates to the Site C Dam / the Peace River Dam.
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Rita Wong Interview 4: Clip 4
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Water, Education, economy, Environmental Degradation, Colonisation
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2018-02-01
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Rita Wong discusses the disconnect between electricity consumption and generation in BC, specifically how Vancouver and other Southern populations receive electricity at the expense of Northern Indigenous communities.She lambastes the provincial government's lack of educating non-indigenous populations about the environmental consequences of prior dams and the proposed Site C / Peace River Dam. However, Wong does acknowledge the city of Vancouver's efforts to generate electricity and other resources locally.
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Nuraliah Norasid 3: Clip 3
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Communication, Culture, Embodiment
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Date
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2018-02-27
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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.
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Nuraliah Norasid 1: Clip 1
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Re/development, Gentrification, Planning & Design, Housing
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2018-02-27
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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.
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Nuraliah Norasid 2: Clip 2
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Re/development, liminality, Housing
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2018-02-27
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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.
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Rita Wong Interview 1: Clip 1
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Water, Solidarity, Community, Embodiment
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2018-02-01
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Rita Wong discusses her activist work as a water guardian and how her beliefs in reciprocity and interconnections between humans and land resources inform her activism. She speaks about the motivations behind her involvement with water preservation.
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Rita Wong Interview 2: Clip 2
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Water, Poetic Intervention, Culture, Preservation, Embodiment
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2018-02-01
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Rita Wong explains that she hopes to foster empathy and generate cultural change through her poetry.
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Cloe Lai Interview
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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
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2018-03-14
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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.
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Dung Kai Chung Interview
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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
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2018-03-15
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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.
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Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 3
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Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, Water
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2018-03-15
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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.
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Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 4
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Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046
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2018-03-15
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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.
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Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 2
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Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046, Water
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2018-03-15
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The previous discussion on the metaphor of water is continued in this clip. The interview then turns to comment on how water can lead to a conversation on political and social uncertainty—a theme that is very pressing in regards to the changing landscape of Hong Kong.
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Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 1
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Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046
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2018-03-15
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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.
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Leung Chi Wo 1: Clip 1
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Narrative, Memory, History, Editied Truth, Power, Personal, Collective, Objects, nostalgia, Commercialization, Commodification
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2018-03-12
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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.
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Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 5
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Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046, Water
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2018-03-15
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In this conclusion to the interview, the artists remark on the idea of imagining a future for the space of Hong Kong. Discussing the possibility ( or lack thereof) for hope and change and the movement from writing one person towards a collective—and the implicit trust needed for such a collective.
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Jason Wee Reading Excerpts From “Six ways to Meet in a Cul-de-sac”
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Censorship, Quotidian, Movement, Navigation, Cityscape, Community
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2018-02-23
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Jason Wee reads two sections from “Six Ways to Meet in a Cul-de-sac” that discuss the quotidian, movement, navigation, cityscape, community, and censorship. In doing so, the reality and human experience of being part of such spaces are explored.
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Leung Chi Wo 2: Clip 2
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Multiplicity, Physicality, Architecture, History, Reincarnation, Hong Kong, Urban Development, Development, Land Reclamation, Preservation, Political Change, Power, Water, Memory, Victoria Harbour, Migration, Photography
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2018-03-12
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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.
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Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
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Migration, Language, Diversity, Culture, Community, Convergence, Arrival, Settlement, Land, Space, Colonialism, Movement, Government, Displacement, Accelerated Change, Singapore, Communication, Modernization, Discrimination, Stratification, Marginalization, Writing
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2018-02-27
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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.
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Cecily Nicholson Interview: Clip 1
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Poetics, Individual, Collective, Art, Space, Materials, History, Land, Fragmented
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2019-06-06
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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.
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Jeremy Tiang Reading An Excerpt from "National Day"
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Display, Island, Singapore, Class, Ships, Water, City, Coastline, Nation, Boundaries, Economy, Labour, Ecological
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2019-01-03
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Author Jeremy Tiang reads an excerpt from "National Day". In this short story, Tiang comments on issues of nationality, economy, class, and the ecology that brings to light the complex reality of Singaporean spaces.
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