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Portside Park 23
Title
Portside Park 23
Keyword
Water, Distance, Shipping Industry
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of Vancouver Harbour with shipping area visible on the right side of the shot and North Vancouver in the background.
Stanley Park 106
Title
Stanley Park 106
Keyword
Water, Boats, City
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of water and docked boats with city skyline in the background.
Polygon Gallery 4
Title
Polygon Gallery 4
Keyword
Art, Language, Shape
Date
2018-02-01
Description
Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography."
Stanley Park 90
Title
Stanley Park 90
Keyword
Shipping Industry, Water, Language
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of a metal sign titled "CONTAINER CARGO" briefly describing elements of the shipping industry. Water is visible in the background.
Museum of Vancouver 1
Title
Museum of Vancouver 1
Keyword
Museums, Language, Musqueam Knowledge, Relationality
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a white wall with a welcoming message in the Musqueam language as well as in English and French.
False Creek Video 4
Title
False Creek Video 4
Keyword
Water, Movement, City, Boats
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Video of city skyline along False Creek looking first towards Concord Pacific Place and then panning left to show BC Place, surrounding buildings, and docked boats. Duration 0:18
Kitsilano Beach 19
Title
Kitsilano Beach 19
Keyword
Water, Rocks, Coast
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of water against large rocks.
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.
Museum of Vancouver 10
Title
Museum of Vancouver 10
Keyword
Mapping, City, Industry, Imperialism, Museums
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a map of Vancouver dated 1898.
Elsje Point
Title
Elsje Point
Keyword
Monuments, Rocks, Coast, Water
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a large rock with the following engraved on it: ELSJE POINT IN HONOUR OF ELSJE de RIDDER LARSEN ARMSTRONG 1918 - 1981 TO RECOGNIZE 35 YEARS OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE IN THE CITY OF VANCOUVER SEPTEMBER 27, 1984
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.
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.
Kitsilano Beach 9
Title
Kitsilano Beach 9
Keyword
Water, Birds
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a group of birds on the water.
Museum of Vancouver 5
Title
Museum of Vancouver 5
Keyword
Mapping, City, Scale, Museums
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a model of Vancouver viewed from above.
Kitsilano Beach Video 2
Title
Kitsilano Beach Video 2
Keyword
Water, Birds, Ships, Boats
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Video of a group of birds on the water with ships and boats in the background. Duration 0:36
Stanley Park Video 6
Title
Stanley Park Video 6
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Video of rocks in the water along Stanley Park, near Vancouver Seawall. A bit of shore can be seen at the top of the shot. Duration: 0:38
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.
Stanley Park 33
Title
Stanley Park 33
Keyword
Rocks, Water, Ecology
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of large rock partly covered in plant life and mostly submerged in shallow water.
Stanley Park 53
Title
Stanley Park 53
Keyword
Water, Boats, City, Ecology
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of water, docked boats, and city skyline with tree branches in the foreground at the top of the shot.
Rita Wong Interview 1
Title
Rita Wong Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Water, Solidarity, Community, Embodiment
Date
2018-02-01
Description
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.
Cindy Mochizuki Clip 1
Title
Cindy Mochizuki Clip 1
Keyword
Site-specific, Memory, Migration, Space, Water, Ecology, Family, Boat, Globalization, Displacement
Date
2019-06-07
Description
In this clip, visual artist Cindy Mochizuki comments on her work called Paper. Mochizuki outlines the inspiration and history of this project and this discussion leads to topics of space, globalization, ecology, memory, and the trans-Pacific.
Stanley Park Video 26
Title
Stanley Park Video 26
Keyword
Water, Shipping Industry, Ships, Helicopters, Buoys, Sound
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Video of a ship moving on the water with harbour cranes in the background; a helicopter flies through at about 0:40. Duration: 1:05
False Creek Video 6
Title
False Creek Video 6
Keyword
Water, Boats, City
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Video of a single boat moving slowly on the water with buildings and Cambie Bridge in the background. Duration 0:52
Polygon Gallery 1
Title
Polygon Gallery 1
Keyword
Art, Perspective
Date
2018-02-01
Description
Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography" from the bottom of a set of stairs.
Wayde Compton Clip 3
Title
Wayde Compton Clip 3
Keyword
Ecosystem, Land, Law, Power, Language
Date
2018-01-23
Description
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.
Portside Park 21
Title
Portside Park 21
Keyword
Water, Distance
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of Vancouver Harbour with North Vancouver across the water in the background.
Polygon Gallery 5
Title
Polygon Gallery 5
Keyword
Knowledge, Art
Date
2018-02-01
Description
Image of a wall providing information about the N. Vancouver exhibition.
Kitsilano Beach Video 5
Title
Kitsilano Beach Video 5
Keyword
Water, Birds, Rocks, Coast
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Video of water against a shore of large rocks in Kitsilano Beach; a lone bird floats by and then dives underwater in the background at 0:27. Duration: 0:36
Rita Wong Interview 2
Title
Rita Wong Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword
Water, Poetic Intervention, Culture, Preservation, Embodiment
Date
2018-02-01
Description
Rita Wong explains that she hopes to foster empathy and generate cultural change through her poetry.
Stanley Park Video 17
Title
Stanley Park Video 17
Keyword
Water, Coast, City, Rocks
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Video of rocks in the water in Stanley Park near Hallelujah Point; Canada Place and harbour cranes are visible in the background. Duration: 0:16
Jordan Abel Interview 4
Title
Jordan Abel Interview 4: Clip 4
Keyword
Landscape / Skyline
Date
2018-01-19
Description
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.
Stanley Park 85
Title
Stanley Park 85
Keyword
Water, Rocks, City, Distance
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of water with rocks visible at the bottom of the shot and with Canada Place and city skyline in the background.
Stanley Park 109
Title
Stanley Park 109
Keyword
Water, Boats, City, Trees
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of water with trees, docked boats, and city skyline in the background.
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.
Museum of Vancouver 9
Title
Museum of Vancouver 9
Keyword
Mapping, Resources, Imperialism, Museums
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a map of Western British Columbia naming the province "GOLD COUNTRY" and "THE NEW EL DORADO."
Stanley Park 80
Title
Stanley Park 80
Keyword
Water, Shipping Industry, Distance
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of water with shipping cranes in the background.
Kitsilano Beach Video 4
Title
Kitsilano Beach Video 4
Keyword
Water, Boats, Skyline, Skyline, Mountains, Birds
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Video of boats on the ocean with the West End city skyline in the background on the right and tree skyline in the background on the left. Duration: 0:44
Vancouver Harbour 113
Title
Vancouver Harbour 113
Keyword
Water, Barriers, Containment
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of water next to a pier. A fence with locks on it is visible at the bottom of the shot.
Stanley Park Audio 4
Title
Stanley Park Audio 4
Keyword
Sounds, Water, Waves, Movement, Coast, City
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Audio of the sound of the water and the wind at Stanley Park. Duration:0:32
Stanley Park 19
Title
Stanley Park 19
Keyword
Water, Rocks
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of rocks in the water.
Stanley Park 32
Title
Stanley Park 32
Keyword
Water, Rocks, Ecology
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of shallow water with rocks, sand, and plant life visible.
Tower Beach 6
Title
Tower Beach 6
Keyword
Rocks, Trees
Date
2018-02-02
Description
Image of small rocks on top of and surrounding logs.
Stanley Park Audio 3
Title
Stanley Park Audio 3
Keyword
Sounds, Water, Waves, Movement
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Audio of the sound of the water at Stanley Park. Duration: 0:59
Portside Park 30
Title
Portside Park 30
Keyword
Sand, Rocks, Trees, Ecology
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of a large log lying on sand and small rocks.
Stanley Park Video 24
Title
Stanley Park Video 24
Keyword
Water, Coast, City, Shipping Industry, Mountains, Rocks
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Video of the view near Brockton Point Lighthouse in Stanley Park, looking across the water towards North Vancouver. A rock shore is visible on the left side. Duration: 0:46
Portside Park 11
Title
Portside Park 11
Keyword
Ecology, Boats, Water, Shipping Industry
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of grass by the shore and docked boats with shipping cranes in the background.
False Creek Video 3
Title
False Creek Video 3
Keyword
Water, Movement, City, Skyline
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Video of the city skyline along False Creek. Duration 0:21