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Title: Vancouver Harbour 24
Keyword: Birds, Water
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of birds on a dock.

Title: Stanley Park 93
Keyword: Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of totem poles and trees with people walking and cycling on the paths.

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: Kitsilano Beach 19
Keyword: Water, Rocks, Coast
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of water against large rocks.

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: 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

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: 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 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.

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: Portside Park Video 2
Keyword: Water, Coast, Boats, Sounds, Birds, Shipping Industry, Harbour
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Video of boats at a dock by some small buildings on the water by Portside Park. Harbour cranes are visible in the background on the right side. Duration: 0:45

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: Stanley Park 99
Keyword: Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees, Colonialism
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of totem poles and trees. There is a sign stating "Please STAY OUT of the Totem Pole Area" at the bottom left of the shot.

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

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: TELUS World of Science 9
Keyword: Earth, Waste
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.

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: TELUS World of Science 20
Keyword: Development, Knowledge, Water, Movement
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of an exhibit with a sign discussing the terms "CULVERT" and "CIRCULAR FLAP GATE." The sign is covered in drops of water, suggesting that it had recently rained.

Title: TELUS World of Science 8
Keyword: Earth, Waste
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.

Title: Canada Place Video 10
Keyword: Sky, Clouds
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Video looking up at the clouds. Duration: 0:06

Title: Stanley Park 19
Keyword: Water, Rocks
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of rocks in the water.

Title: Stanley Park 32
Keyword: Water, Rocks, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of shallow water with rocks, sand, and plant life visible.

Title: Tower Beach 6
Keyword: Rocks, Trees
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Image of small rocks on top of and surrounding logs.

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 30
Keyword: Sand, Rocks, Trees, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of a large log lying on sand and small rocks.

Title: Stanley Park 94
Keyword: Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of totem poles and trees with people walking on the paths.

Title: Stanley Park 95
Keyword: Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Trees
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of totem poles and trees.

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