Tomorrow Is Another Day (After The Economic Crisis)

This piece was installed as part of the Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary show, No Soul For Sale. The exhibition showcased alternative art groups around the world, elevating them as souls “not for sale”. Our installation was intended as a comment on relational aesthetics, and made reference to artist Rirkrit Tiravanija’s project, Tomorrow is Another Day, in which he re-created his NYC apartment inside London’s Serpentine Gallery.

Where Tiravanija aimed to dissolve the gallery walls dividing interior from exterior, we sought to bring attention to those walls and the privileged context that delimits corporate-sponsored art galleries from the world around them.

We built the padlocked facade of a home foreclosed by Morgan Stanley, one of the primary actors responsible for the foreclosure crisis, and a sponsor of the Tate exhibition. Television sets in trash piles in front of the home played roughly edited video of Morgan Stanley and Tate advertising, spliced with news reports about the crisis.

Two years later we were invited back to Tate Modern to speak about our work. As part of the presentation we created an animation that explained the piece. An excerpt of that presentation can be viewed here.