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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Singapore Island Cruise Audio 4
Keyword: Sounds, Birds, Boats
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Audio of ambient sounds in Singapore, including birds singing, a creaking sound, and a boat horn towards the end. Duration: 0:48

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: Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 2
Keyword: Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046, Water
Date: 2018-03-15
Description: 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.

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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