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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.
Phinder Dulai Clip 2
Title
Phinder Dulai Clip 2
Keyword
Ports, Geography, Multicultural, Space, Asian-Canadian, Movement, Globalization, Water, Transnational
Date
2019-06-06
Description
In this second clip to the interview, the conversation starts with a discussion of Vancouver as a multicultural place. In turn, this leads into the spaces of ports and ships and global infrastructure of such a space.
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.
Cecily Nicholson Clip 1
Title
Cecily Nicholson Clip 1
Keyword
Poetry, Space, Ecology, History, Language, Mobility
Date
2019-06-06
Description
Nicholson touches on topics such as space, history, and poetics by discussing her own experiences working in art and writing.
Stanley Park Audio 2
Title
Stanley Park Audio 2
Keyword
Sounds, Water, Waves, City, Coast
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Audio of the ambient sounds at Stanley Park, including the sound of moving water and people talking. Duration: 0:24
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
Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
Title
Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
Keyword
Oral Language, Colonial Language, Language, Poetry, Perspective, Space
Date
2019-06-06
Description
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.
Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
Title
Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
Keyword
Ecology, Natural World, Poetry, Mobility, Culture, Settler, Language, Economy, Identity, Space, Diasporic, History
Date
2019-06-06
Description
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.
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.
Phinder Dulai Clip 1
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.
Guadalupe Martinez Interview 3
Title
Guadalupe Martinez Interview 3: Clip 3
Keyword
Education, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention, Embodiment
Date
2018-01-30
Description
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.