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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2026 

26-04   SFGR

26-03     Synopsis / Outline
26-02Time Traveler Tetra Vision

26-01The Last Angel Of History


2025 
25-12Time Travelers’ Device

25-11Brainstorm

25-10REMIX 2025
25-09The opening
25-08Transmission
25-07Stuart Hall & Hip-Hop
25-06Encyclopedia
25-05Copyright
25-04Sound & Vision Youtube
25-03Archival frequencies
25-02Eugènie Herlaar
25-01Language


The Last Angel Of History


I was recommended ‘The Last Angel Of History’ by John Akomfrah recently - by  Andreas Brooks - during a conversation about my general idea for the film I want to make for this residency. When I watched it yesterday and the day before yesterday, I realised that there was so much information that I could alchemise in order to search, structure & solidify the work I am wanting to make in my head — like it was providing me tools which I didn’t know I was missing.

In short:
The Last Angel of History is a 45-minute documentary, directed in 1996 by John Akomfrah and written and researched by Edward George of the Black Audio Film Collective, that deals with concepts of Afrofuturism as a metaphor for the displacement of black culture and roots.[...]The fictional story follows the journey of the "Data Thief," played by the film's writer and researcher Edward George, who must travel across time and space in search of a crossroads where he makes archaeological digs for fragments of history and technology in search of the code that holds the key to his future. The structure of the film makes it a meta-narrative commenting on while also becoming part of the genre of Afrofuturism.

There is a lot of condensed information in there, and a lot of structural and narrative materials to consider.  What I keep thinking about is how this film was made in 1996; internet only had ‘just’ entered the public realm and there was so much philosophical ideas about it at the time. One of the most expanded theories from around that time was about the democratization of information. Fast forward 30 years later, and I am needing to have a deep think on where the internet truly is now, what it represents and what it holds as a medium.  Additionally, as I was was watching the film, I was wondering consistently how much this work also has influenced / informed the work of Jenn Nkiru, specifically her works Rebirth Is Necessary & Black To Techno.

Below my collected notes from the film as an order to backlog so I can revisit this while building my work — an in order to use it as search queries when seeking materials in the Sound & Vision archives. How I took these notes is I wrote down everything that stood out to me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it is complete or definitive, it just means that these are the words in consecutive order that resonate with me. Context may, or may not, be provided. 

Notes as navigational tools
- The secret of a Black technology
- The blues / The Blues
- Flash forward 200 years into the future
- Data thief
- Archeological dig 
- Techno fossils
- The keys to your future
- Mothership connection
- Stealing fragments
- Techno culture, narrative culture, cyber culture.
- Two gadgets; a black box and a rather special pair of sunglasses
- Becomes astro, space, extra terrestial
- Playing drums to cover distance
- Water carried the sounds of the drums and sound covered the distance between the old and the new world
- First clue that took him back to the new world
- “It’s after the end of the world, didn’t know you know that yet?”
- Ragtime, swing, bebop, avant-garde
- Music is a mirror of the universe; we explore the future through music
- I cover the Earth and roll it like a ball in my hand!
- Space + Black People — We’ve been there, we are returning
- We are descendant from the stars
- Connecting between music, space and the future
- Bernard Harris (Astronaut)
- The line between social reality and science fiction is an optical illusion
- Impossible imaginary musics
- Because they are imaginary they are even more powerful 
- Black people were the first astronomers and mathematicians
- Sons coming back from space
- Species jump
- Express man and machine [intertwined]
- Human side of technology
- Cultural disclocation, enstragement, alienation
- No longer allowed to play certain rhythms
- Downloaded into the cortex
- Sell your soul; get secrets
- The thief gives up the right to belong in his time in order to come to our time
- He can visit the old world and the new, but he cannot be a part of either. He doesn’t know that this is his problem.
- Moral freedom
- New rhythm 
- New words + phrases
- When it is conceived it has no effect on the outside world until later one
- Science fiction and social reality
- The zone of optical illusions
- Technology has broken time down because we are the future because the time we are in is the future
- Who are we?
- Always looking for the future but it’s right underneath our nose; it wasn’t then but it is now
- Technical equipments; we can catch it and put it in its place. Take from any of those eras, time is irrelevant

Associative thoughts
- Broadcasting after the end of the world
- Broadcasting into the void
- Void / connection / distance / space
- Past, present, future, butterfly effect
- Time travel as a means of space travel
- Unfinished textures that feel futuristic
- Tambú
- Reconciling the feeling of belonging

Questions
- What music does a time traveler listen to? 
- How does music activate entry ways into certain times? Portals!
- Does a time traveler move around on the planet? Or do the planets move around the time traveler?
- Where do you belong when you belong across multiple times? In what time were you born and were you ever really born at all? Or, simply, manifested? [an event, an action, an object]


Connective material


The Last Angel Of History (1996, dir. John Akomfrah)
26-01
Text, Video
09-01-2026