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Title: Marina Barrage 32
Keyword: Water, erosion, liminality
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Close up on part of the metal barrier of the dam. Shows the wear of the water on the metal.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Audio 2
Keyword: Water, Sounds
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds on the Singapore Island Cruise ferry, including water and engine sounds. Duration: 0:43

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 10
Keyword: Water, Movement
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video focusing on the water behind the boat as it moves through the Singapore River. Duration: 0:17

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 19
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Art, Culture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video passing closely by the ArtScience Museum; tall buildings are visible across the river in the background before the camera pans past the museum to show a closer shot of Marina Bay Sands. Duration: 0:23

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Video 10
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Industry, Movement
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the city skyline with the water movement caused by the ferry visible in the bottom right corner of the shot. Duration: 0:10

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: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 65: St. John's Island to Kusu Island
Keyword: Water, Sailing, Landscape / Skyline, Surveillance
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Photo taken from inside a ferry showing the ferry window and a view outside to the main island city skyline and ocean.

Title: Labrador Park 25
Keyword: Water, Industry, Coast
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Close-up of a red buoy, centred, with ships in the background.

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: East Coast Park Audio 1
Keyword: Water, Waves, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Audio of ambient sounds at East Coast Park, including the sound of waves hitting the shore. Duration: 0:46

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: Charles Lim 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Foreshores Act, Water, Visual Art, Mixed Media Art
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Charles Lim discusses what he thinks the purpose of visual art is and how visual arts intersect with invisible forces (such as The Foreshores Act).

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: Singapore Maritime Gallery 56
Keyword: Water, Industry, liminality
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Piers and ships on the ocean outside the gallery.

Title: Marina Barrage Audio 2
Keyword: Water, Waves, Birds, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Audio of the ambient sounds at Marina Barrage, including the sound of waves and birds singing. Duration: 0:50

Title: St. John's Island Video 4
Keyword: Water, City, Landscape / Skyline, Trees
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the city skyline from St. John's Island. Duration: 0:35

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: Singapore River Cruise Video 14
Keyword: Water, City, Architecture, Art, Culture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of Marina Bay Sands and ArtScience Museum. At around 0:16, the camera pans left to re-include the museum in the shot. Duration: 0:37

Title: Labrador Park 77
Keyword: Water, Industry, Coast
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Red buoy on the ocean with ships in the background.

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 57
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Water, Industry, Coast, boundary
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: View looking out a window (frame visible) toward a pier with ships in the background.

Title: St. John's Island Video 2
Keyword: Water, Waves, Movement
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video with a close shot of the ocean in St. John's Island by the pier. Duration: 0:33

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Audio 3
Keyword: Water, Waves, Sounds
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Audio of wave sounds. Duration: 0:44

Title: St. John's Island 14
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Sailing, Islands
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Ferry and metal structure partially visible in the water. Main island city skyline in the background.

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 11
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Architecture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video looking behind the boat and focusing on the tall buildings by the river until the view is obscured by the underside of Esplanade Bridge at around 0:16. The boat finishes passing underneath the bridge towards the end of the video. Duration: 0:45

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 53: Kusu Island to Main Island
Keyword: Water, Industry, Sailing, liminality
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Pier on the right. Ship to the left. Foamy water in the bottom left corner caused by a moving ferry.

Title: Kusu Island 47
Keyword: Land Reclamation, Water, Surveillance, boundary
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Sign stating the absence of lifeguards and that all visitors swim "at their own risk." The sign advises swimmers to not venture "beyond the rock bunds."

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 20
Keyword: Water, Architecture, Culture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the Helix Bridge as the boat moves alongside it. Duration: 0:08

Title: Esplanade Outdoor Theatre 7
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Sailing
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Nighttime shot of an illuminated bridge on the water. City skyline in the background.

Title: East Coast Park Audio 2
Keyword: Water, Waves, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Audio of ambient sounds at East Coast Park, including the sound of waves hitting the shore. Duration: 1:09

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: Singapore River Cruise Video 5
Keyword: Water, City, Skyline, Architecture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the water behind the boat; the view includes buildings, then moves to focus on the water before shifting back up again. Duration: 0:14

Title: Marina Barrage 41
Keyword: Water, Coast
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Ocean water

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: Singapore River Cruise Video 6
Keyword: Water, City, Architecture, Skyline
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the view from the boat as it moves towards a bridge with the Fullerton Hotel on the right side of the shot and the Asian Civilizations Museum on the left side of the shot; other buildings are visible in the background. Duration: 0:24

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 15
Keyword: Industry, Education
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Model of a ship.

Title: Labrador Park Video 7
Keyword: Water, Coast, Shore, Barriers, Ships, Trees
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Video of the ocean with a rock shore visible on the left side of the shot. Several ships and a tree-covered hill are visible the background. Duration: 0:41

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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