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Jordan Abel Interview 1
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.
Wayde Compton Reading
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.
Jeremy Tiang 1
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).
Jordan Abel Interview 3
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).
Robert Zhao 1
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.
Jordan Abel Interview 4
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.