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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The opening

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Transmission

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Stuart Hall & Hip-Hop

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Encyclopedia

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Sound & Vision Youtube

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Archival frequencies

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Eugènie Herlaar

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Last entry was made on September 18, 2025

About

I have been invited by the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision to participate in a 2 year artist-in-residency, running from the start of 2025 to the end of 2026, titled Sounds Familiar. The project “was established to create a more polyvocal archive that deals with colonial history in all of its facets. By acknowledging (racial) bias, the perceived neutrality of being the norm, and the othering of underrepresented people, Sounds Familiar aims to reckon with its role, responsibility and the care that comes with being an archive holder.”

During my time as an Artist In Residence for Sound Familiar I will have unlimited access to their archives, and from this, I will be creating a new work. This website serves as an online diary + archive of this two year process.

💜, Tarona

Focus

My focus is to create a new film — in the form of a visual mixtape.
The theme for the film / visual mixtape is transmission.

Pillars, timeline, purpose & questions

I have built my residence on 4 pillars; each pillar has a specific purpose during a set timeline — and uses questions that act as a compass to stay grounded, balanced and focused during the working period. Some timelines may overlap or change, since my working methods are never linear — and the work wants to be what it wants to be.

Pillar 1. Navigation (February 2025 - May 2025)
Purpose: discovering the tools and laying the foundation.

- How does the archive function?
- How are archives interlinked?
- What are different types of copyright and how does it work?
- What stands out + what is missing?

Pillar 2. Gathering (May 2025 - July 2026)
Purpose: collecting + organizing the materials in order to build the work.

- What are the themes, topics + frameworks that I want to work with?
- Which materials (videos, images, sounds, texts) are needed?
- What can be found in the archive and what is still missing?
- From which sources can materials be pulled?

Pillar 3. Assembly (January 2026 - July 2026)
Purpose: building and bringing life into the work.

- What does the work want to be? What does it need to be?
- What connections does it make? What does it tell?
- What is the urgency of the work?
- What is the rhythm of the work?
- What do I need to inject myself because it does not exist?

Pillar 4. Sharing (August 2026 - December 2026)
Purpose: exhibiting the work + giving back to community through education.

- Where can the work be showcased, promoted + shared effectively?
- How can I organise + shape a non-traditional workshop on what an archive is?
- How can I work with (non-white) youth on rethinking what an archive is?
- Who can I collaborate and organise with with in relation to the work?

Acknowledgements

Special thank you to Stevie Nolten, Researcher at Nederlands Institute for Sound & Vision & co-founder of Sounds Familiar. Thank you to Cees Martens, Project Leader at Nederlands Institute for Sound & Vision).

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Sounds Familiar is kindly supported by the Mondriaan Fund.