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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.

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.

Title: Polygon Gallery 4
Keyword: Art, Language, Shape
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography."

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.

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.

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

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.

Title: Museum of Vancouver 10
Keyword: Mapping, City, Industry, Imperialism, Museums
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a map of Vancouver dated 1898.

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.

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.

Title: Kitsilano Beach 9
Keyword: Water, Birds
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a group of birds on the water.

Title: Museum of Vancouver 5
Keyword: Mapping, City, Scale, Museums
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a model of Vancouver viewed from above.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Title: Polygon Gallery 5
Keyword: Knowledge, Art
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of a wall providing information about the N. Vancouver exhibition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Title: Stanley Park 80
Keyword: Water, Shipping Industry, Distance
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of water with shipping cranes in the background.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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