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Juria Toramae 3
Title
Juria Toramae 3: Clip 3
Keyword
Industry, Islands
Date
2018-02-24
Description
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.
Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 1
Title
Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 1
Keyword
Sci-fi, Sea Levels, Climate Change, Hong Kong, Urban Renewal, Conservation, 2046
Date
2018-03-15
Description
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.
Dark Fluid Collective: Clip 4
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.
Cloe Lai Interview
Title
Cloe Lai Interview
Keyword
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
Date
2018-03-14
Description
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.
Jordan Abel Interview 3
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).
Jason Wee 3
Title
Jason Wee 3: Clip 3
Keyword
Planning & Design, Colonisation, Mixed Media Art, Government Intervention
Date
2018-02-23
Description
Jason Wee explains the thought behind his art installation Labyrinths, with references to choreography, colonisation, and governmental planning.
Dung Kai Chung Interview
Title
Dung Kai Chung Interview
Keyword
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
Date
2018-03-15
Description
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.
Clara Chow 2
Title
Clara Chow 2: Clip 2
Keyword
Anxiety, Architecture, Environmental Degradation, Official Narratives
Date
2018-02-23
Description
Clara Chow discusses how she resists official Singaporean narratives of progress through her writing and assuages personal anxieties about space / purpose / production through crocheting.
West Kowloon Audio 1
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
Jeremy Tiang 1
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).
Nuraliah Norasid 2
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.
Juria Toramae 2
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.