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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The opening

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Transmission

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Stuart Hall & Hip-Hop

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Encyclopedia

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Sound & Vision Youtube

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Archival frequencies

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Eugènie Herlaar

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Language

Transmission.

I’ve come to discover that this is at the forefront of my mind while thinking about this residency, the work I want to make and which direction I want to take it into. Transmission is a wide term, so let me first disclose what terms are available of transmission as an entrypoint for myself.

: an act, process, or instance of transmitting
transmission of a nerve impulse across a synapse

: the passage of radio waves in the space between transmitting and receiving stations
also : the act or process of transmitting by radio or television

: an assembly of parts including the speed-changing gears and the driveshaft by which the power is transmitted from an engine to a live axlealso : the speed-changing gears in such an assembly

: something that is transmitted : message

Now, when I think of transmission myself, there are currently a lot of questions I’m asking myself, but mainly the following ones;

- How do we transmit something as human beings? (Language? Sound? Movements?)
- What does it means to transmit? What does it mean to receive?
- What happens in the space between the transmissiting (send / receive)?
- What is the purpose of transmission?
- How do we decide what gets transmitted?
- What are the things we transmit without knowing it? (Energies? Intentions?)
- Are there limitations to transmissions? What / who defines these limits?

My biggest concern right now is that I have yet to figure out how the metaphysical shows up in the archive of Sound & Vision at this point. I am collecting here and there but need to manage to find links somehow. I think the best point is to start wide as possible and work associatevely. Perhaps make a thinking cloud to see what words I connect to ‘transmission’ and use these wider search terms to collect work.

It’s frustrating to me, this process of what is offered vs what I am seeking. Because when I think of transmission I am thinking about these terms in the widest context; while from the archives perspective a lot of the word seems to be taken literal and practical — I am looking for something beyond the scope of the physical, tangible realm, and where transmission can be found elsewhere. This also gets me thinking not only about the limit of the archive, but also perhaps the humans linked to them and how the gridwork itself forces them to think; this force which has been put in place by humans themselves is now the cage that they have places themselves in and they are no longer capable of thinking outside of that self imposed cage of frameworking.

I need to move past that + beyond that — if I manage to do that, I feel like I have also ‘decolonised’ the archive and the process of thinking like this; consistently limited.

I also thought a lot Alfred Schnittke’s gravestone in relation to transmission;

'The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’ - John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.

Transmitting / still(ness) /, even after death.

Connective material

Cage, John. 4′33″: For Any Instrument or Combination of Instruments. Edition Hemnar Press, 2014

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Text, Images

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