Sound & Vision
Sounds Familiar
Artist In Residence
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
Analyze / Create / Limit Archive - Sound
Process Notes
Behind The Traveler
Work In Progress
SFGR
Synopsis / Outline
Time Traveler Tetra Vision
The Last Angel Of History

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Time Traveler’s Device
Brainstorm
REMIX 2025
The opening
Transmission
Stuart Hall & Hip-Hop
Encylopedia
Copyright
Sound & Vision YouTube
Archival frequencies
Eugènie Herlaar
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Spirit, Faith, Grace, Rage


I just found notes that I hadn’t put up here yet, when I went to see the iconic Marylin Nance at Kunstinstituut Melly, for her solo show Spirit Faith Grace Rage on December 13, 2025. She had a talk that day — and here are notes I took during that talk. It was very insightful and I know there is some material in here that keeps me thinking, which I will most likely inject into the film for the residency. I know her work through her rules concerning the archive, which are instrumental. 

1. Keep the archive safe.
2. Organize the archive.
3. Make the archive accessible.


Notes
- Service of yourself
- Being part of the situation
- Never call them ‘subjects’.
- A record; representing yourself (selfportrait)
- It says as much about yourself as it is what is in front of your camera
- Living archive, breathing archive
- Examination of own life
- What’s important about the images?
- Last part of making the work is sharing it.
- Archives are for the purpose of reflectio.
- Working against the predominant image.
- A photograph can read across cultures.
- Your family reveals your purpose + skills / tools. Look at your family.
- Geanealogy.
- We have it / how do we choose to express it? It takes courage!
- Purpose / intentional documentation.
- Indexing!
- It’s junk / trash until you organise it!
- Spirit, Faith, Grace, Rage
- Black Talk Radio 
- Things don’t happen when you think it’s going to happen.
- Collecting additional material
- Audio cassette recordings
- “Solo show”, but I never do anything alone.
- Marylin Nance Archive Fellowship.
- Community is doing things for each other.
- File numbers as the absolute index.
- Entirely into active image making.
- Not specify date or time so you can move through space instead of linking toward time.
- Understanding when things will come around. Things happen on the right time.
- Long exposures / slowing down to capcture moment of movement.
- Something that happens in between.
- Faith: When there is no instant playback. You’re waiting for something to happen. Just wait for it.
- Life is going on when you put your finger on the shutter or not.
- Education + how that informs the way you photograph (look / see)
- The photographs are informed.
- Good to speak to your elders so you know what things you have, come from.
- Affinity
- Reviewing images + sounds of the photographs.


Connective material


Marilyn Nance: Walkin' 
(Copyright © Marilyn Nance / Artists Rights Society, 2022) 


Marilyn Nance: FESTAC Village: Sun Ra rehearsing on the keyboard, with Kamau Seitu (of the Wajumbe Cultural Ensemble) on tap drums (Copyright © Marilyn Nance / Artists Rights Society, 2022) 



"Egungun Work", Installation by visual artist, Marilyn Nance. Studio Museum in Harlem AIR Exhibition. 1994. © Marilyn Nance.




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Text, Images
24-01-2026