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Title: Downtown Vancouver Skyline 2: As Seen from Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of the view behind the Residence Inn hotel in Downtown Vancouver showing multiple tall buildings.

Title: Kusu Island 33
Keyword: Sand
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Small shells, rocks, leaves, and other debris on a sandy beach.

Title: Stanley Park 96
Keyword: Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of totem poles and trees with two people standing nearby.

Title: Museum of Vancouver 2
Keyword: Musqueam Knowledge, Colonialism, History, Museums, Relationality
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a wooden wall with a message describing how the area has changed from Musqueam space to Vancouver and introducing a museum section about Musqueam history.

Title: TELUS World of Science 7
Keyword: Earth, Waste
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.

Title: W Waterfront Road
Keyword: Transportation, City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of a train and city skyline.

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 37
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Park, Industry
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Grass with trees on the right-hand side with harbour cranes in the background.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 44
Keyword: Sailing, Mapping, Education, Industry
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: A simulated ship control room with an Electronic Chart Display and Informational System.

Title: TELUS World of Science 21
Keyword: Development, Knowledge, Industry, Pollution, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of a sign discussing Vancouver's shift from "a city of gas (and coal, and lumber, and concrete, and metal...)" to a "city of glass," claiming that "pollution levels are [now] much lower" and that "wildlife is returning to the area." The sign is covered in drops of water, suggesting that it had recently rained.

Title: Downtown Vancouver Skyline 4: As Seen from Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of the view behind the Residence Inn hotel in Downtown Vancouver showing tall buildings and trees.

Title: Marina Barrage 19
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Industry, economy, Sustainability
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: Sustainable Singapore Gallery area with the city skyline including the Marina Bay Sands and the Singapore Flyer Ferris Wheel in the background.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 17
Keyword: Industry, Education
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: White wall with an illustration explaining 'transhipment.'

Title: Labrador Park 44
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Housing, Re/development, Park
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Bukit Chermin boardwalk with Reflections at Keppel Bay (residential towers) in background.

Title: Singapore River Cruise Video 25
Keyword: City, Art, Culture, Architecture
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video of the Stamford Raffles statue and surrounding buildings and trees. Duration: 0:06

Title: Esplanade Bridge 3: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: Industry, liminality
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: The underside of Esplanade Bridge.

Title: Downtown Vancouver Skyline 12: As Seen from Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Skyline
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of the city skyline behind the Residence Inn Hotel in the early morning.

Title: Downtown Eastside Vancouver 1: 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: Museum of Vancouver 8
Keyword: Mapping, City, Scale, Museums
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of a model of Vancouver viewed from the side.

Title: Stanley Park 73
Keyword: History, Violence, Colonialism
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of a plaque on stone describing the Nine O'Clock Gun.

Title: Robert Zhao 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Photography, Sand
Date: 2018-03-06
Description: Robert Zhao and Joanne Leow talk about Zhao's photographic work and how it imitates the relationship reclaimed land has to time and scale.

Title: Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
Keyword: Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: Wayde Compton reads a scene from his short story "The Lost Island." In this scene, the characters Jean and Fletcher consider the newly emerged volcanic island off Vancouver's coast and Fletcher proposes they go to the island as an act of anti-colonisation. This story appears in Compton's 2014 book of interconnected short stories The Outer Harbour.

Title: East Coast Park 70
Keyword: Sand, liminality, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Close-up on the boundary between grass / dirt and sandy beach.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 23
Keyword: transnational trade, Mapping
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: A map inside a shipping container showing global trade routes.

Title: Water Tour 98
Keyword: Construction, Sand, Land Reclamation, Cityscape, Skyline
Date: 2018-03-13
Description: Image of people working on a large construction site.

Title: TELUS World of Science 17
Keyword: Earth, Waste, Geology
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of an exhibit of layers of earth with garbage embedded in the top layer and with a sign describing each different layer.

Title: Kusu Island 38
Keyword: Culture, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Sign detailing the history of the island.

Title: Clarke Quay 7: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: erosion
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Wall under Read Bridge / Malacca Bridge.

Title: Stanley Park 43
Keyword: Coast, Ecology, Rocks, Sand
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of moss on the top of Vancouver Seawall with tree branches on a sand shore in the background.

Title: Jeremy Tiang 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Place, Landscape / Skyline, transnational trade, Islands
Date: 2018-01-03
Description: Jeremy Tiang talks about his short story "National Day" and why he chose to write from a plural first person POV. He discusses the importance of his characters being migrant workers and how residents of Singapore relate to the islands of Singapore as place (or how they often do not).

Title: Portside Park 41
Keyword: Barriers, Ecology, Shipping Industry
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of a chainlink fence with shipping area in the background.

Title: Kitsilano Beach 34
Keyword: Shore, Coast, Ecology, City
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of sand beach and rock seawall with city skyline in the background.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Video 3
Keyword: Ships, City, Skyline, Boats
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Video looking to the side to show the city skyline; the ferry passes by boats and a cargo ship. Duration: 1:16

Title: East Coast Park 51
Keyword: Land Reclamation, Coast, shore, Sand
Date: 2018-02-27
Description: Close-up of a white starfish on sand.

Title: TELUS World of Science 14
Keyword: Questions, Art, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of a giant red question mark symbol tilted towards the right side of the shot with False Creek and city skyline in the background.

Title: Stanley Park 113
Keyword: Trees, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of tall trees.

Title: Singapore Maritime Gallery 34
Keyword: Biodiversity, Education
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Top-down view of exhibit of marine organisms.

Title: Waterfront Station 1
Keyword: Movement, Transportation, City
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of trains and train tracks with city skyline along the right side.

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: Singapore Maritime Gallery 19
Keyword: Industry, transnational trade
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: A black plaque that details the importance of Singapore to the global maritime economy. This blurb is translated in English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil.

Title: Phinder Dulai Clip 1
Keyword: History, Poetry, Polyphony, Archives, Transnationalism, Archives, Colonial, Voices, Refugee, Reality
Date: 2019-06-06
Description: 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.

Title: ArtScience Museum 1: Singapore River Cruise
Keyword: Art, Architecture, Culture, Mixed Media Art
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Close-up of the ArtScience Museum and surrounding area.

Title: West Kowloon 19
Keyword: Construction, Barriers, Development, City
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Image of large pipes and construction debris with city skyline in the background.

Title: Portside Park 38
Keyword: City, Skyline, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of an empty parking lot with city skyline in the background.

Title: Vancouver Convention Centre 2
Keyword: Fish, Art, Relationality, Representation, Event
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of metal fish hanging from a skylight in the ceiling with Vancouver 2010 Olympic podium and medal exhibit in the background.

Title: Polygon Gallery 8
Keyword: Art, Language, Shape
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography."

Title: West Kowloon 12
Keyword: Sky, Construction, Development, Sand, City
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Image of the cloudy sky above a large construction site and city skyline.

Title: Robert Zhao 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-03-06
Description: Robert Zhao recollects how he used to walk for hours on reclaimed land, when the new sand was unstable marsh land before it settled enough to develop.

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: 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.

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