Tomorrow Hotel

If a hotel can become home, and home transient: what does this mean for the identities we carry, and the utopias we long for? In confronting liminality, Tomorrow Hotel offers refuge 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 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 cities, 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 deepest 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. Through the poetics of in-betweenness, it challenges structures and histories once thought solid, ultimately offering a refuge in which we, despite our ideals, are challenged to face the question of how to move ourselves along in an ever-changing world.

I wish you a warm welcome,

Dragan Sarić