Ashore: A Drift, by Marcus Yee

Ashore: A Drift

by Marcus Yee

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1.	Afloat 04:54
2.	Charlie Lee and Paula Au - [bell hooks. all about love: new visions, 2000] 00:38	info
3.	Charlie Lee - [Remarks by Sir Cecil Clementi. Straits Settlements Legislative Council Proceedings, 1931] 02:06	info
4.	Paula Au and Charlie Lee - Coastline Paradoxes 04:55
5.	Charlie Lee and Marcus Yee - [Questions by Mohamed Unus bin Abdullah. Straits Settlements Legislative Council Proceedings, 1931; Sukaimi Bin Ibrahim. Communities of Singapore (Part 3), Disc 2 of 16, 000704, January 22, 1987] 09:44	info
6.	Charlie Lee - [Lord Gorrell. “Civil Aviation”, Proceedings of the Second Air Conference, United Kingdom Air Ministry, February 7-8, 1922] 03:19	info
7.	[Baba Gurdit Singh. Voyage of Komagatamaru, or India’s Slavery Abroad, 1928] 05:16	info
8.	[Baba Gurdit Singh. Voyage of Komagatamaru, or India’s Slavery Abroad, 1928] 05:09	info
9.	Paula Au - [Lee Hsien Loong. National Day Rally 2019, 2019] 05:19	info
10.	Charlie Lee and Marcus Yee - [“Key Position In Sea and Air Communications”, The Straits Times, 14 June 1937; “New Airport Is On Site of Former Swamp”, The Straits Times, 12 June 1937] 04:06	info
11.	Paula Au - [Frank L. Vosper. "Gurdit Singh", Vancouver Sun, June 1914] 02:31	info
12.	Charlie Lee - Surfacing 04:02
13.	Charlie Lee and Marcus Yee - [Derek Walcott. “The Sea is History”, Selected Poems, 2007] 03:53	info

about

Ashore: A Drift
2020
Audio, text on paper

Presented as part of Tomorrow is An Island, As Inland, A Sin Land, ADM Gallery, Nanyang Technological University, a collateral program of the Singapore Biennale 2019.

Voiceover: Charlie Lee, Paula Au, Marcus Yee
Field recording: Marcus Yee
Technical support: Lai Yu Tong

Ashore: A Drift (2020) is an audio- and text-based work that considers histories along the continental shelf: nearshores as amorphous stretches of exchange between sea and sediment; offshores as both the high seas (considered horizontally) and atmospheres (considered vertically). Coastal histories from the early 20th century, encompassing the development of colonial airports, ‘swamp’ draining, and the case of Komagata Maru, are the currents and countercurrents of imperialism traced through a series of primary documents. Audio streams branch through several text-islands, comprising of field-recordings, sounds, and readings.