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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: Jordan Abel Interview 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Colonisation, Poetic Intervention
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this clip, Jordan Abel delves into his writing process for Place of Scraps, particularly how he came to use erasure techniques on Marius Barbeau's text Totem Poles. From this a discussion ensues on how readers can, or should, approach and read Place of Scraps. Abel's poetry makes use of fragmented words and images alongside more traditional narrative (for an example, please refer to Jordan Abel's Reading).

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.

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Inter-generational Trauma, Landscape / Skyline, Colonisation
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: Jordan Abel discusses his fraught position as a both a displaced Nisga'a and urban Indigenous person. He muses on the idea of a "pan-Indigenous" community where displaced indigenous peoples could gather and recognise their shared inter-generational traumas while creating a space of belonging. Abel maintains that the goal is to "get back to community" and "get back to the land," but acknowledges that doing so is often difficult or the ways to do so are obscured.

Title: Jordan Abel Reading: "Of his own volition..." from The Place of Scraps
Keyword: Totem Poles, Poetic Intervention
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this audio clip, Nisga'a writer Jordan Abel reads a short excerpt from his poetry collection Place of Scraps. The collection as a whole interrogates Marius Barbeau's role as an ethnographer in the early twentieth-century, and this scene in particular focuses on a totem pole moved from the Nass River Valley (Northern British Columbia) to a museum in Toronto as part of Barbeau's project.

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.

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