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Guadalupe Martinez Interview 1: Clip 1
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Keyword
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Embodiment, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention, Water
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Date
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2018-01-30
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Description
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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.
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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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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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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 1: Clip 1
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Keyword
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Poetic Intervention, Surveillance, Water
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Date
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2018-01-28
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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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Cecily Nicholson Clip 1
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Poetry, Space, Ecology, History, Language, Mobility
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Date
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2019-06-06
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Description
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Nicholson touches on topics such as space, history, and poetics by discussing her own experiences working in art and writing.
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Stanley Park Audio 2
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Sounds, Water, Waves, City, Coast
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Date
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2018-01-31
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Description
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Audio of the ambient sounds at Stanley Park, including the sound of moving water and people talking. Duration: 0:24
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Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
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Keyword
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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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Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
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Oral Language, Colonial Language, Language, Poetry, Perspective, Space
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Date
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2019-06-06
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In the final clip of the interview, the discussion focuses on the topic of language. Nicholson comments on the complex relationship between language and knowing and how she uses this relationship in the context of poetry.
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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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Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 2: Clip 2
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economy, Water, Environmental Degradation, transnational trade
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Date
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2018-01-28
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Description
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Shazia Hafiz Ramji and Dr. Joanne Leow have a conversation about the ideas of bodies of water and human bodies, particularly regarding transportation and transnational flow. This progresses to a discussion about waterfront development and the way condo developers co-opt artistic / poetic language and use of imagery to sell properties.
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Wayde Compton Clip 1
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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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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 Clip 4
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Advertisement, Language, Power, Manipulation, Government
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Date
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2018-01-23
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In this final clip of the interview, Compton discusses the nature of the conclusion to The Outer Harbour. It then shifts to a discussion of land claims and diasporic and Indigenous politics, and the experience of writing within such a political landscape.
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Guadalupe Martinez Interview 3: Clip 3
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Education, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention, Embodiment
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Date
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2018-01-30
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Description
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Guadalupe Martinez discusses her recent thoughts about embodiment, performance, and pedagogy. She asserts that embodied performance is a way to communicate a multiplicity of narratives in a single space that promotes a form of knowing more visceral than traditional / institutionalised learning.