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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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Date
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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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Jason Wee 2: Clip 2
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Photography, Landscape / Skyline, Islands
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Date
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2018-02-23
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Jason Wee discusses his work with islands and reclaimed sand in Singapore. He discusses the early maps of Singapore and his use of photo-rendering software to produce fictional photographs of Singapore.
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Jason Wee 1: Clip 1
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Embodiment, Photography, Mixed Media Art
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Date
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2018-02-23
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Description
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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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Date
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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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Date
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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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Date
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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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Juria Toramae 2: Clip 2
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Industry, Islands, Environmental Degradation
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Date
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2018-02-24
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Juria Toramae describes her experiences documenting the coastline around restricted islands. She mentioned the aquatic animals and the corporate development of specific islands.
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Juria Toramae 3: Clip 3
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Industry, Islands
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Date
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2018-02-24
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Description
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Juria Toramae discusses the uses of Singapore's off-shore islands and how her art work attempts to make people aware of how the islands have been shaped by Singapore's growing economic power.
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Juria Toramae 1: Clip 1
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Fences, Islands, Photography, Re/development
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Date
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2018-02-24
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Juria Toramae discusses 'diary' style of her work documenting Singapore's islands. She talks about the inaccessibility of many of the islands.
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Charles Lim 4: Clip 4
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Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
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Date
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2018-02-26
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Description
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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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Description
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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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Date
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2018-02-23
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Description
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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 4: Clip 4
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Articulation, Poetic Intervention
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Date
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2018-01-28
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Description
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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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Jason Wee 3: Clip 3
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Planning & Design, Colonisation, Mixed Media Art, Government Intervention
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Date
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2018-02-23
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Description
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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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Date
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2018-01-19
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Description
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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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Date
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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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Date
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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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Date
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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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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 1: Clip 1
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Place, Landscape / Skyline, transnational trade, Islands
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2018-01-03
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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).
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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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Date
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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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Date
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2018-03-06
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Description
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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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Date
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2018-03-06
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Description
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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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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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Date
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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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Juria Toramae 4: Clip 4
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Photography, Islands, Mapping
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2018-02-24
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Description
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Juria Toramae talks about her process of super-imposing maps of Singapore on top of each other to show how the coast / outline of the island has changed over time and compare it to her work with photographs in Points of Departure.
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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 4
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Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046
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Date
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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 1
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Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046
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Date
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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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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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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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Robert Zhao Reading An Excerpt From The Land Archive
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Timelessness, Reclaimed Land, Sand, Ecosystems, Artificial Landscape, Land Reclamation, Space, Time, Movement
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2018-03-06
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Multimedia artist Robert Zhao reads an excerpt from The Land Archive where he comments on the temporal and geographic effects of land reclamation.
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Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
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Ecology, Natural World, Poetry, Mobility, Culture, Settler, Language, Economy, Identity, Space, Diasporic, History
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Date
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2019-06-06
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In this second clip of the interview, Nicholson touches on topics such as space, colonial history, poetry, and settler language. The discussion then shifts to comment on language use—in particular thinking of the language used in regards to the non-human elements of space.
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Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
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Oral Language, Colonial Language, Language, Poetry, Perspective, Space
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Date
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2019-06-06
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In the final clip of the interview, the discussion focuses on the topic of language. Nicholson comments on the complex relationship between language and knowing and how she uses this relationship in the context of poetry.
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Phinder Dulai Clip 1
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History, Poetry, Polyphony, Archives, Transnationalism, Archives, Colonial, Voices, Refugee, Reality
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2019-06-06
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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.
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Wayde Compton Clip 1
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Space, Instability, Maps, Surtsey
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Date
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2018-01-23
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This clip starts with a discussion of Compton's book The Outer Harbour. More specifically, the idea of imagining Canadian spaces being in flux and how Compton’s imagining of spaces is connected to his personal history.
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Cindy Mochizuki Clip 3
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Art, History, Space, Audio, Displacement
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2019-06-07
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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.
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Wayde Compton Clip 2
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Government, Land, Law, Power, Language, Power, Ecosystems, Colonialism, Instability, Construction
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Date
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2018-01-28
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This second clip starts by discussing the instability of space and land. The conversation then shifts to discuss the different forms of discourse used to describe particular spaces, and the implications of such language use.
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Wayde Compton Clip 3
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Ecosystem, Land, Law, Power, Language
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Date
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2018-01-23
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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.
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Clara Chow Reading Excerpts from “The Wheel”
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Space, Nation, Economy, Myth, Politics
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2018-02-23
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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.
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Wayde Compton Clip 4
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Advertisement, Language, Power, Manipulation, Government
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Date
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2018-01-23
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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.
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Singapore Island Cruise Audio 4
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Sounds, Birds, Boats
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Date
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2018-03-01
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Audio of ambient sounds in Singapore, including birds singing, a creaking sound, and a boat horn towards the end. Duration: 0:48
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