Search results

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

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: 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.

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.

Title: Cindy Mochizuki Clip 2
Keyword: Space, Diaspora, Water, Transnationalism, History, Memory, Family, Site-Specific, Displacement
Date: 2019-06-07
Description: The second audio clip discusses the work’s use and layering of space. Mochizuki’s then comments on how her work connects to the ocean and water—leading to a discussion of the culture of diaspora, history, space, and transnationalism.

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.

Title: Stanley Park Audio 1
Keyword: Sounds, City, Birds
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at Stanley Park, including various birds singing and people talking. Duration: 1:07

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: Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 3
Keyword: Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, Water
Date: 2018-03-15
Description: 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.

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 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).

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).

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: Rita Wong Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Water, Poetic Intervention, Culture, Preservation, Embodiment
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Rita Wong explains that she hopes to foster empathy and generate cultural change through her poetry.

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: 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: 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.

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

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.

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: 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: 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.

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: 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: 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: 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.

You are here