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


Synopsis / Outline


It’s about time to start really dig into the structure for the film I want to make, so it’s important to write an synopsis / outline in order to set its precedent. Below my notes!

Synopsis
Breaking news: an object has been unearthed on the island of Curaçao, as a new hotel was being built by Dutch investors on the furthest end of the island. Operations have seized since the findings, and archeologists have been called in to identify the buried finding as well as leading scientists. They have identified it as a device that has no storage limit — which is able to travel through time and space, and record material through all set dimensions and timelines. 63 petabytes have been extracted from the device so far, with data facilities being built in order to facilitate the devices extraction. However, only a small percentage has been able to be decoded so far, as most technologic advances seem to have not been developed yet in order to read its data and contents. This extracted material has been dubbed lovingly by the public - and will be known in the history books as - the “Time Traveler Tetra Vision”.

Outline
- Opening sequence of breaking news, with newsanchor (referencing Eugènie Herlaar)
-  The found object is being shown  on the newsitem
- Viewing of material starts -> Runtime TBD.
- Ending of news item, with closing words? 
- Glitch of Eugènies Herlaar audition during closing words of anchor as ‘interference’. 
- Credits

Additional note
I think what is important  in building the newsitem that it is unclear from what time period this newsitem is being broadcast. Time should not be mentioned throughout the text of the newsreader or  anywhere else, except in the ‘material’ itself, but not as a means to determine time.  There should be no mention of day or night, nor year nor hours should be mentioned. This  removes any sense of time and thus any sense of linear chronological movement for the work.


Connective material

BLKNWS by Kahlil Joseph at Venice Biennale (Giardinni), 2019
“An anchoring project of curator Ralph Rugoff’s Venice Biennale, Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS broke new artistic ground while redefining the genre of the news broadcast. The project consists of a continuously updated newscast in the form of a two-channel video that splices historical and contemporary found footage with newly shot scenes of news room and documentary reportage. Each broadcast is shown on two closely hung screens that play simultaneous footage meant to inflect and inform each other in a continuous dialog. Through his distinctive use of juxtaposition and montage, Joseph’s BLKNWS seeks to generate a plurality of editorial voices that approach reportage through a distinctly black lens. The result is a positively pitched new broadcast in the form of a visual art experience that delivers strangely truthful, original, and hyper contemporary insights into the human condition.” 



26-03
Text, Images, Video
13-01-2026