Tomorrow Hotel

If hotel can become home, and home transient: what does this mean for the identities we carry, and the utopias we long for? Confronting liminality, Tomorrow Hotel becomes a place for mourning, where hard identities crumble - reaching beyond identity.

Dear reader,

Tomorrow Hotel unfolds inside a hotel room in Taiwan during a period of mandatory quarantine in 2021. Trapped in-between departure and arrival, the hotel becomes a liminal waiting room: reflecting on the liminality of a Yugoslav Identity that no longer exists, while drawing parallels with Taiwan's own journey toward independence. Here, the hotel room becomes a space where one resides when neither their identity nor homeland is no longer here, nor there.

Exploring Taiwan's interior and exterior, the project expands on how a temporary place can feel like home, while a home can become transient; questioning the identities we carry and the utopias we long for in our fantasies. It addresses the universal struggle of a world trying to move on, but finds itself trapped: haunted by ghosts of its unresolved pasts and lost futures. A struggle between the ‘‘no longer’’ and the ‘‘not yet’’, which Mark Fisher would have defined as: ‘‘A past that cannot disappear is the equivalent of a future that will never arrive.’’

Facing these ghosts, Tomorrow Hotel transforms its liminality into a space for mourning and reconsolidation - where hard identities crumble. It's a poetic representation of being in-between, offering a way for a person, or a people, to come to terms with the past, in order to redefine themselves in an ever-changing world.

I wish you a warm welcome,

Dragan Saric