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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2026

26-10
26-09
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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

2025
25-12 25-11 25-10 25-09 25-08 25-07 25-06 25-05 25-04 25-03 25-02 25-01
Time Traveler’s Device
Brainstorm
REMIX 2025
The opening
Transmission
Stuart Hall & Hip-Hop
Encylopedia
Copyright
Sound & Vision YouTube
Archival frequencies
Eugènie Herlaar
Language


Behind the Traveler


I’m now constructing the film and I find myself consistently wondering who the person is behind the device who collected all the material? Where and when did this individual come from? Are they from this planet? Are they even from this specific universe? I’m thinking about these questions a lot because I am trying to figure out what material a time traveler would collect. And if they had a device,  how would that device organise the material or how would it be shown after being decoded? Is it linear? Is it stacked? Does it have timestamps? A lot of the information I am thinking about is about the material itself and how it wants to be presented. 

In the past there have been sightings and conspiracies surrounding time travelers. What I find fascinating is how much imagery plays a role in the narration of this - with amazing titles such as “7 True Images That Will Make You Believe In Time Travel!” They make me giggle a bit, also coming from a photographic background - knowing that people see what they want to see, but also that images can easily be manipulated. Simultaneously, I am not above the idea that time travelers actually exist and have possibly been captured on film / image. 

I think in some ways we are all time travelers — moving through timezones, generations, memories, materials. I asked two of my friends what kind of things they would record or collect if they were time travelers and their answers were quite incredible. One wrote that they would take an object from each of their ancestors houses / spaces, and the other one wrote that they would record music of every place, video whatever communal dance would happen, what people are wearing, how they dance and what they dance to. They would also collect earth. They also wrote they would keep a travel journal.

Thinking on these answers I was wondering if I should extend this project beyond just the format I am building now and also turn this into a small zine that could function as a journal or some sorts mixed with news as well as hand written notes, all manufactured from scratch. Something to think about. I just found it so touching and fascinating, both these answers - because they both pointed to connectivity in humanness - which ultimately will always transcends space + time. The need to connect. And how connections can last.

Feeling very, very moved.
To be continued.

PS. Have you ever noticed how (almost) all time travelers are white and male in pop culture?


Connective material


“Where did you go? And why did you leave?” 



26-06
Text, Images, Video
21-03-2026