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Title: Clarke Quay 8: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: erosion
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Stone wall and edge of Read Bridge / Malacca Bridge. Turquoise border visible on top.

Title: Roadway 1
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Industry, Construction
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Trees along the road and a line of harbour cranes on the right side.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 13
Keyword: Industry, Preservation
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Parchment wall with images of shipping containers through the years from the 1300s to the present day.

Title: Roadway 2
Keyword: boundary, Mapping
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Photo taken from inside a car. Looking through the windscreen at the road.

Title: Roadway 5
Keyword: Culture, Surveillance
Date: 2018-02-28
Description: A pink sign stating "There your heart goes again ponging from point A to point B like some silly little pinball" in a way that makes your eyes move back and forth like the pinball being described. Sign is mounted on a grassy hill.

Title: Juria Toramae 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Photography, Islands, Mapping
Date: 2018-02-24
Description: Juria Toramae talks about her process of super-imposing maps of Singapore on top of each other to show how the coast / outline of the island has changed over time and compare it to her work with photographs in Points of Departure.

Title: Labrador Park 73
Keyword: Surveillance, shore
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: A sign stating that one should call 999 if one sees any "suspicious activity" such as "Boats landing on beach with suspicious persons onboard," "Suspicious vehicles parked near shorelines," and "Unloading of goods at beach front."

Title: Charles Lim 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Charles Lim talks about land reclamation and his SEA STATE project "Inside / Outside."

Title: Nuraliah Norasid 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Communication, Culture, Embodiment
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Nuraliah Norasid discusses how she conceived of the languages in The Gatekeeper in relation to the physical bodies of the different races and their social organisations. She explains her decision to use the medusa as a central figure in the novel.

Title: Kusu Island 26
Keyword: Islands, Industry, Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Surveillance
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Sign on rock barrier proclaiming: "DANGER STRONG CURRENTS PLEASE DO NOT SWIM HERE." A large cargo ship, along with other ships and city skyline, in the background.

Title: Jason Wee 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Planning & Design, Colonisation, Mixed Media Art, Government Intervention
Date: 2018-02-23
Description: Jason Wee explains the thought behind his art installation Labyrinths, with references to choreography, colonisation, and governmental planning.

Title: Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
Keyword: Migration, Language, Diversity, Culture, Community, Convergence, Arrival, Settlement, Land, Space, Colonialism, Movement, Government, Displacement, Accelerated Change, Singapore, Communication, Modernization, Discrimination, Stratification, Marginalization, Writing
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: In this recording, Nuraliah Norasid reads an excerpt from her novel The GateKeeper. Norasid raises topics of culture, settlement, discrimination, and development--depicting the colonial reality of spaces and the accelerated changes such a reality brings with it.

Title: Labrador Park 46
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Industry, transnational trade, economy
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Thin strip of ocean in the immediate foreground with many boats and harbour cranes in the middle ground. Part of a white building visible to the left.

Title: Jason Wee 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Embodiment, Photography, Mixed Media Art
Date: 2018-02-23
Description: Jason Wee discusses his artistic practice and how he moves between mediums.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 22
Keyword: Industry, Mapping, transnational trade
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Photo taken looking through a shipping container. A world map with additional information to the left, the words "You are standing in an actual 20 foot container" on the right.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 7
Keyword: Education, Mapping
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Close-up of the map under "The Travels of Wang Duyuan" section on the 'parchment' styled wall.

Title: Nuraliah Norasid 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Re/development, Gentrification, Planning & Design, Housing
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Nuraliah Norasid talks about the underground settlement Nelroote in her novel, The Gate Keeper, and compares it to Singapore's history of displacing residents to build new housing.

Title: Clara Chow 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Anxiety, Architecture, Environmental Degradation, Official Narratives
Date: 2018-02-23
Description: Clara Chow discusses how she resists official Singaporean narratives of progress through her writing and assuages personal anxieties about space / purpose / production through crocheting.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 12
Keyword: Industry, Education, Culture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Parchment wall section titled "Singapore's Unprecedented Growth" with a quote from Abdullah about shipping.

Title: Robert Zhao 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Documentation, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-03-06
Description: Robert Zhao and Joanne Leow discuss the space of reclaimed land and how Singaporeans negotiate that space as potential and void.

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