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2025-2026

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Tarona (b. 1985, Curaçao) is a visual artist and director working across film, photography and research. In her work, she examines how memory and knowledge are maintained and shared within the Black Diaspora. She investigates how this knowledge moves through gestures, places, times, and materials, rather than being fixed in language or narrative alone. She works across two registers: guided as much by intuition as by rigorous research, with feeling as a key part of her method.
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Illusion / Transparency
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2025
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Stuart Hall & Hip-Hop
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Stuart Hall & Hip-Hop.


Just got reminded of Stuart Hall’s essay ‘Constituting An Archive’.  I was first introduced to Stuart Hall’s work during my Critical Studies minor, and have been revisiting it again sporadically. I love this essay, Constituting An Archive, specifically - because it looks at the archive through a predominantely Black / Caribbean / Afrodiasporic lens, instead of from the white gaze, which is predominantly present in language, movement and thought when considering the concepts surrounding the ‘archive’.

Below some favourite snippets that I’m pulling when thinking about my residency with Beeld & Geluid specifically, and with the idea that I want to create a visual mixtape.

“In the idea of a 'living archive of the diaspora' all three terms need to be considered for the hidden implications they carry. 'Living' means present, on-going, continuing, unfinished, open-ended.”


“Of course, 'diasporic' does not prescribe the form of the work. Many different styles can shelter beneath the canopy of the diasporic.”


[...] He describes this diasporic attitude in terms of an 'interruption', which 'seeks not to impose a language of its own ... but to, enter critically into existing configurations to re-open the closed structures into which they have ossified'.”


And my favourite part:

“It is impossible to describe an archive in its totality. The very idea of a 'living archive' contradicts this fantasy of completeness. As work is produced, one is, as it were, contributing to and extending the limits of that to which one is contributing. It cannot be complete because our present practice immediately adds to it, and our new interpretations inflect it differently.”


When thinking about this specifically, the first thing that comes to my mind is hip-hop, specifically from the 90’s and how sampling  is done — taking from the already existing records but creating new records through those records. These new songs and albums do then nót become a copy of that original pressing, but an imaginitave reinterpretation to fit the contemporary mindset of that moment, its present spirit — through an act of love, admiration and instrumentation — or what we now have come to known as; sampling.


Connective material
J Dilla, Raph Rashid, Photograph (2005)


The Pharcyde - Drop’ produced by J.Dilla 
Tracklib - (Sample Breakdown)
Souls of Mischief, 93 ‘Til Infinity, Single (1993)
Souls Of Mischief - 93 ’Til Infinity 
(Produced by A Plus) 
Tracklib - (Sample Breakdown)

A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders, Album (1993)
A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
(Produced by Q-Tip) 
Tracklib - (Sample Breakdown)



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27-02-2025