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


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.




26-04
Text, Images
24-01-2026