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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: Portside Park 40
Keyword: Barriers, Ecology, Shipping Industry
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of a rusting chainlink fence with shipping area and North Vancouver in the background.

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: Downtown Eastside Vancouver 2: Alexander Street and Gore Avenue
Keyword: City, Roads, Shipping Industry, Movement, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of the intersection of Alexander Street and Gore Avenue with shipping cranes and containers in the background.

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: 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: West Kowloon 59
Keyword: Barriers, Movement, Advertising, City
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Image of a path with fencing on either side and with advertising on the fencing on the right side.

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: 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: Water Tour Video 24
Keyword: Waves, Waves, Movement
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Video of slightly foamy water beside the ferry. Duration: 00:17

Title: Water Tour Video 12
Keyword: City
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Video of boats and ships on the water; the ferry turns so that the city skyline comes into view from the left side at about 00:06. Duration: 00:19

Title: Leung Chi Wo 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Narrative, Memory, History, Editied Truth, Power, Personal, Collective, Objects, nostalgia, Commercialization, Commodification
Date: 2018-03-12
Description: In this audio recording, Leung Chi Wo addresses the complex relationship between history and memory in Hong Kong’s past. He acknowledges both the importance and the potential difficulty of object-based presentation, and discusses how he counteracts the problem of the commercialization or commodification of the nostalgia of such objects.

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 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.

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