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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: 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: 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: 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: Singapore Maritime Gallery 9
Keyword: Education, Preservation, Colonisation
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Parchment wall section titled "The Founding of Singapore" beside a quote by Stamford Raffles.

Title: Rita Wong Interview 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Water, Education, economy, Environmental Degradation, Colonisation
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Rita Wong discusses the disconnect between electricity consumption and generation in BC, specifically how Vancouver and other Southern populations receive electricity at the expense of Northern Indigenous communities.She lambastes the provincial government's lack of educating non-indigenous populations about the environmental consequences of prior dams and the proposed Site C / Peace River Dam. However, Wong does acknowledge the city of Vancouver's efforts to generate electricity and other resources locally.

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