Wayde Compton Clip 2
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Wayde Compton Clip 2
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| Titles | Wayde Compton Clip 2: |
| Name | Wayde Compton |
| Name | Dr. Joanne Leow |
| Type of Resource | sound recording |
| Identifier | Interview |
| Identifier | Wayde Compton Clip 2 |
| Abstract | This second clip starts by discussing the instability of space and land. The conversation then shifts to discuss the different forms of discourse used to describe particular spaces, and the implications of such language use. |
| Extent | 2:37 Minutes |
| Form | sound recording |
| Note | Wayde Compton: Part of it was just the history of False Creek, too, and my research into Hogan’s Alley in the old black community that was there. I remember having sort of disoriented moments in my research where…because you’re getting different stories and different oral histories of what things were like down there, and I remember at a certain point getting very confused, because somebody was talking about being on the water, like living right next to the water, but also indicating they were really close to Hogan’s Alley, and I thought, “wait, that’s pretty far from the water, what are you talking about?” And then I realized that, you know, that the False Creek is not the same as it was and a lot of it was filled in for the railway. And that was another similar, weird experience, where you look at the old map and realize, oh, False Creek went way up to here. That sort of rearranges the city for you, in your mind. So, yeah, just the idea that things are not stable, even the land is not stable. 1:02 Joanne Leow: Yeah, whether manmade or, in your case, in the story that you’re writing, a fact of nature. Obviously what you’re thinking about, to me, connects with this idea, this empty land, this terra nullius—but immediately, I notice when you start writing the story—even with the scientific diction, which we know is colonial to a certain extent, but this seems to break down, because when you start to inventory and think about exactly what this new volcanic island is made of, there’s this impulse there to sort of say, “no, it’s not empty, no it’s not.” So, was that the idea behind that inventory, that constant inventory of how do you talk about this island and how do you define this island? 1:40 [thump at 2:21, lots of background noise 2:32-end] Wayde Compton: Yeah, I was interested, too, in not just how law and power and jurisdiction takes claim over the island, but also, nature too, but then also the language of nature, so also discourse, right, different types of language to describe what’s happening to this place, right. So, yeah, it’s which people does it belong to, but say whatever you want, it’s still—it belongs to this ecosystem now all of a sudden. And it is also kind of an intrusion into that, too, when a volcanic island appears it alters everything around it physically, the patterns of birds and that sort of thing would change. If anything, I wondered if I represented how cataclysmic it would really be. It would be a big thing, it might’ve been even bigger than the way I described it in terms of how much ash would’ve been thrown up into the air, and how much that would’ve affected things. |
| Access Condition | Contact Dr. Joanne Leow |
| Subject Hierarchical Geographic | North America--Canada------Vancouver |
| Subject Local Name | ----Government------Low--Land--Law--Power--Language--Power--Ecosystems--Colonialism--Instability--Construction |