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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 1
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.
Guadalupe Martinez Interview 1
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.
Singapore Island Cruise Audio 1
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
Singapore Island Cruise Audio 2
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
Rita Wong Interview 1
Title
Rita Wong Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Water, Solidarity, Community, Embodiment
Date
2018-02-01
Description
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.
Charles Lim 4
Title
Charles Lim 4: Clip 4
Keyword
Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date
2018-02-26
Description
Charles Lim talks about land reclamation and his SEA STATE project "Inside / Outside."
Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
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
East Coast Park Audio 1
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
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 3
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.
Water Tour Audio 1
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
Leung Chi Wo 2: Clip 2
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.
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.
Singapore Island Cruise Audio 3
Title
Singapore Island Cruise Audio 3
Keyword
Water, Waves, Sounds
Date
2018-03-01
Description
Audio of wave sounds. Duration: 0:44
Charles Lim 2
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).
Wayde Compton Clip 3
Title
Wayde Compton Clip 3
Keyword
Ecosystem, Land, Law, Power, Language
Date
2018-01-23
Description
This section of the interview starts by discussing the way Compton integrates multiple genres into his works. The conversation then ties in the topic of genre theory with a discussion of discourse and language use.
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 2
Title
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword
economy, Water, Environmental Degradation, transnational trade
Date
2018-01-28
Description
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.
Kitsilano Beach Audio 1
Title
Kitsilano Beach Audio 1
Keyword
Water, Waves, Birds, Shore, Coast
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Audio of the ambient sounds at Kitsilano Beach, including the sound of the waves hitting the shore. Duration: 0:52
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.
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.
Canada Place Audio 2
Title
Canada Place Audio 2
Keyword
Water, Coast, Sounds
Date
2018-01-26
Description
Audio of the ambient sounds at Canada Place. Duration: 1:01
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.
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.
Stanley Park Audio 3
Title
Stanley Park Audio 3
Keyword
Sounds, Water, Waves, Movement
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Audio of the sound of the water at Stanley Park. Duration: 0:59
Robert Zhao 3
Title
Robert Zhao 3: Clip 3
Keyword
transnational trade, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date
2018-03-06
Description
Robert Zhao and Joanne Leow discuss the difficulty of comprehending the impact of land reclamation and how time and scale function on reclaimed land.
Jason Wee Reading Excerpts From “Six ways to Meet in a Cul-de-sac”
Title
Jason Wee Reading Excerpts From “Six ways to Meet in a Cul-de-sac”
Keyword
Censorship, Quotidian, Movement, Navigation, Cityscape, Community
Date
2018-02-23
Description
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.