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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.
Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
Title
Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
Keyword
Water, Waves, Shore, Sounds
Date
2018-02-02
Description
Audio of the sound of the waves hitting the shore at Tower Beach. Duration: 0:41
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.
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.
Jordan Abel Interview 1
Title
Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
Date
2018-01-19
Description
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.
Guadalupe Martinez Interview 2
Title
Guadalupe Martinez Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword
Mixed Media Art, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention
Date
2018-01-30
Description
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.
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.
Phinder Dulai Clip 1
Title
Phinder Dulai Clip 1
Keyword
History, Poetry, Polyphony, Archives, Transnationalism, Archives, Colonial, Voices, Refugee, Reality
Date
2019-06-06
Description
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.
Wayde Compton Reading
Title
Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
Keyword
Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
Date
2018-01-23
Description
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.
Kitsilano Beach Audio 1
Title
Kitsilano Beach Audio 1
Keyword
Water, Waves, Birds, Shore, Coast
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Audio of the ambient sounds at Kitsilano Beach, including the sound of the waves hitting the shore. Duration: 0:52
Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
Title
Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
Keyword
Identity, Language, Poetry, History, Settler, Culture
Date
2019-06-06
Description
In this final clip, Nicholson concludes her discussion on settler-colonialism and language use.
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