Sound & Vision
Sounds Familiar
Artist In Residence
2025-2026

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Tarona (b. 1985, Curaçao) is a visual artist, film director and educator. Her work focuses on identity, culture and on new ways of being and seeing. She has a deep interest in creating more space for the Black Diaspora and the experiences of people with mixed and multicultural backgrounds. Her mission is to inspire people to fully embrace themselves — in ways that will bring impactful, constructive and postive changes that move across time and generations.
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2025 

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Language


Language (noun); a system of communication used by a particular country or community.
I keep thinking about how language is used — both as a tool + a weapon — especially when it comes to topics and themes that are as seen as ‘academic’ - such as ‘decoloniality’, which is part of the base for this residency. When I enter certain spaces, especially those that are privileged and sit on frameworks that arise from colonialism — and are (in my opinion) heavily academic. While I fully understand why language works as a key to get into certain spaces (which can then allow you to then break the system from the inside out), I find myself often thinking and feeling that the language that used is often times overwhelming, annoying and in many cases, unnecessary.

Alex di Giorgio wrote the following in a blog post titled Academic Jargon & Knowledge Exclusion:

“Jargon can function to exclude certain people from the production and consumption of knowledge. [...] Jargon can exclude in the same way by obstructing participation in the production of knowledge and access to certain institutions. Academia is one of the main institutions that regulates knowledge, meaning universities contain experts who hold a degree of authority on defining what can be counted as truth or not.”

A question.

Is what you’re saying (or doing) réally revolutionary when what you are talking + writing about is inaccessible for folks outside of the walls of ‘institutions’ and ‘academics’?


Some considerations in the front of my mind connecting to my question:

How do you communicate?  
Why do you use these words?
What words do you repeat the most?

What words confuse you, while you are using them?
Are you aware of whom you are speaking to?
What is a different word for (that / this)?
What is a gesture you can use instead of a word?
What gestures do you make with certain words?
What do you see before you use the word?
What is the sound of that word? What is its colour?
Are you able to name 2 different words for that one word?
Can you communicate this (concept) to a 5 year old child?
Can you explain this to someone who cannot read or write?




Connective material


Jean-Michel Basquiat, Now’s The Time, 1985



Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly, 2015

“Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.“ - John Berger (Ways Of Seeing)



Major Levels of Linguistic Structure, Thomas, James J. & Cook, Kristin A. , ed. (2005) Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, National Visualization and Analytics Center, p. 110

Voices, Äänet, Kirlian photograph,Veli Granö 2004


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