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Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 1
Keyword: Documentation, Re/development
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: A white wall with a quote from Lee Kuan Yew (2007) about Singapore's Maritime development.

Title: Clarke Quay 4: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: Growth, Rocks
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Stone wall with plants growing up the side. Bright pink border on top of the wall.

Title: Clarke Quay 8: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: erosion
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Stone wall and edge of Read Bridge / Malacca Bridge. Turquoise border visible on top.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 48
Keyword: Land Reclamation, boundary, Mapping
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: A screen with images of Singapore's changing coastline from 1975-2016. The image shown is dated 2001.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 13
Keyword: Industry, Preservation
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Parchment wall with images of shipping containers through the years from the 1300s to the present day.

Title: Singapore City Gallery 1
Keyword: Culture, Mixed Media Art
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Three statues of women with yokes over their shoulders carrying baskets.

Title: Roadway 2
Keyword: boundary, Mapping
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Photo taken from inside a car. Looking through the windscreen at the road.

Title: ArtScience Museum 8: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: Architecture, Art, economy
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Looking up at the ArtScience Museum. Marina Bay Sands in the background.

Title: Roadway 5
Keyword: Culture, Surveillance
Date: 2018-02-28
Description: A pink sign stating "There your heart goes again ponging from point A to point B like some silly little pinball" in a way that makes your eyes move back and forth like the pinball being described. Sign is mounted on a grassy hill.

Title: Juria Toramae 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Photography, Islands, Mapping
Date: 2018-02-24
Description: 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.

Title: Labrador Park 73
Keyword: Surveillance, shore
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: A sign stating that one should call 999 if one sees any "suspicious activity" such as "Boats landing on beach with suspicious persons onboard," "Suspicious vehicles parked near shorelines," and "Unloading of goods at beach front."

Title: Nuraliah Norasid 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Communication, Culture, Embodiment
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: 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.

Title: Kusu Island 33
Keyword: Sand
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy beach.

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.

Title: Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
Keyword: Migration, Language, Diversity, Culture, Community, Convergence, Arrival, Settlement, Land, Space, Colonialism, Movement, Government, Displacement, Accelerated Change, Singapore, Communication, Modernization, Discrimination, Stratification, Marginalization, Writing
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: 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.

Title: Jason Wee 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Embodiment, Photography, Mixed Media Art
Date: 2018-02-23
Description: Jason Wee discusses his artistic practice and how he moves between mediums.

Title: ArtScience Museum 1: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: Art, Architecture, Culture, Mixed Media Art
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Close-up of the ArtScience Museum and surrounding area.

Title: Labrador Park 74
Keyword: Culture
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: A sign detailing some of the history of the Twin Fortresses.

Title: Kusu Island 36
Keyword: shore, Sand
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy shore.

Title: ArtScience Museum 3: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: Culture, Art, Architecture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Close-up of the side of the ArtScience Museum.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 22
Keyword: Industry, Mapping, transnational trade
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Photo taken looking through a shipping container. A world map with additional information to the left, the words "You are standing in an actual 20 foot container" on the right.

Title: Labrador Park 75
Keyword: Culture
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: A sign with information about Admiral Keppel and "the Pirates."

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: 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.

Title: East Coast Park 69
Keyword: Sand, Land Reclamation, liminality, boundary
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Area where grass turns into a sandy beach. A thin white and red striped tape is attached to a traffic cone.

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