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Rita Wong Interview 3: Clip 3
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Water, Education, Government Intervention, Re/development
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2018-02-01
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Rita Wong talks about the relationships between bodies and land and her uncertainty regarding the term 'activist.' She also discusses the importance of naming as a way of generating empathy and education, specifically as this relates to the Site C Dam / the Peace River Dam.
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Rita Wong Interview 4: Clip 4
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Water, Education, economy, Environmental Degradation, Colonisation
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2018-02-01
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Rita Wong discusses the disconnect between electricity consumption and generation in BC, specifically how Vancouver and other Southern populations receive electricity at the expense of Northern Indigenous communities.She lambastes the provincial government's lack of educating non-indigenous populations about the environmental consequences of prior dams and the proposed Site C / Peace River Dam. However, Wong does acknowledge the city of Vancouver's efforts to generate electricity and other resources locally.
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Rita Wong Interview 1: Clip 1
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Water, Solidarity, Community, Embodiment
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Date
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2018-02-01
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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.
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Rita Wong Interview 2: Clip 2
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Water, Poetic Intervention, Culture, Preservation, Embodiment
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Date
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2018-02-01
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Rita Wong explains that she hopes to foster empathy and generate cultural change through her poetry.
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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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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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Date
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2018-03-12
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Description
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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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Leung Chi Wo 2: Clip 2
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Multiplicity, Physicality, Architecture, History, Reincarnation, Hong Kong, Urban Development, Development, Land Reclamation, Preservation, Political Change, Power, Water, Memory, Victoria Harbour, Migration, Photography
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2018-03-12
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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.