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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 57: Kusu Island to Main Island
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: City skyline and lots of clouds. Minor reflection of a light at the top of the frame.

Title: Jeremy Tiang 2: Clip 2
Keyword: transnational trade, Landscape / Skyline, Coast, economy
Date: 2018-01-03
Description: Jeremy Tiang and Joanne Leow discuss how land reclamation has and continues to shape Singapore's boundaries and how capitalism propels this process.

Title: Labrador Park 33
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Industry, Park
Date: 2018-02-25
Description: Landscape shot of the park surrounding a beacon. Harbour cranes in the distant background on the left.

Title: Roadway 4
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, boundary, Surveillance
Date: 2018-02-26
Description: A fenced off area with a "WORK IN PROGRESS" sign. Tree trunk with foliage.

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