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Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
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Water, Waves, Shore, Sounds
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Date
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2018-02-02
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Description
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Audio of the sound of the waves hitting the shore at Tower Beach. Duration: 0:41
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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 1: Clip 1
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Poetic Intervention, Surveillance, Water
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Date
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2018-01-28
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Description
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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.
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Phinder Dulai Clip 2
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Ports, Geography, Multicultural, Space, Asian-Canadian, Movement, Globalization, Water, Transnational
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Date
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2019-06-06
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Description
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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.
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Cindy Mochizuki Clip 1
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Site-specific, Memory, Migration, Space, Water, Ecology, Family, Boat, Globalization, Displacement
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Date
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2019-06-07
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Description
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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.
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Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
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Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
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Date
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2018-01-19
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Description
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In this clip, Jordan Abel discusses his relationship to Vancouver as a place and how his family histories and traumas are tied to Vancouver and the legacy of colonial violence. He discusses the placement of Indigenous art throughout Vancouver (and the totem poles in Stanley Park in particular) and the complexities around displaying Indigenous art and tradition in such a public space, weighing accessibility against voyeurism.
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Guadalupe Martinez Interview 2: Clip 2
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Mixed Media Art, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention
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Date
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2018-01-30
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Description
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Guadalupe Martinez talks about how both found objects and poetics function in her performance art. She explains that the title of her performances are integral components to the performance. She also emphasises that the found objects she uses have inherent meanings that bring a depth and clarity to her work and serve to create emotion connections.
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Cecily Nicholson Clip 2
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Ecology, Natural World, Poetry, Mobility, Culture, Settler, Language, Economy, Identity, Space, Diasporic, History
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Date
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2019-06-06
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Description
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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.
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Wayde Compton Clip 1
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Keyword
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Space, Instability, Maps, Surtsey
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Date
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2018-01-23
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Description
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This clip starts with a discussion of Compton's book The Outer Harbour. More specifically, the idea of imagining Canadian spaces being in flux and how Compton’s imagining of spaces is connected to his personal history.
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Jordan Abel Interview 4: Clip 4
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Landscape / Skyline
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Date
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2018-01-19
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Description
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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.
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Phinder Dulai Clip 1
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History, Poetry, Polyphony, Archives, Transnationalism, Archives, Colonial, Voices, Refugee, Reality
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Date
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2019-06-06
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Description
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In this audio clip, Phinder Dulai discusses his work Dreams/Arteries. He comments on his use of archives, the form of poetry, refugees, and the polyphony of voices in his work.
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Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
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Keyword
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Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
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Date
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2018-01-23
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Description
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Wayde Compton reads a scene from his short story "The Lost Island." In this scene, the characters Jean and Fletcher consider the newly emerged volcanic island off Vancouver's coast and Fletcher proposes they go to the island as an act of anti-colonisation. This story appears in Compton's 2014 book of interconnected short stories The Outer Harbour.
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Kitsilano Beach Audio 1
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Water, Waves, Birds, Shore, Coast
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Date
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2018-01-24
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Description
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Audio of the ambient sounds at Kitsilano Beach, including the sound of the waves hitting the shore. Duration: 0:52
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Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
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Identity, Language, Poetry, History, Settler, Culture
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Date
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2019-06-06
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In this final clip, Nicholson concludes her discussion on settler-colonialism and language use.
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Stanley Park Audio 4
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Sounds, Water, Waves, Movement, Coast, City
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Date
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2018-01-31
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Description
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Audio of the sound of the water and the wind at Stanley Park. Duration:0:32