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and space continuum which has been imposed on the ontological structure of<br />
art making, c) resists unnecessary staging of a reality which does not exist. [Tile<br />
gllost Ilas been sllifting around now ... we can hear him going on and on about works<br />
wllicll do not necessarily correlate to what the Docent has been speaking about.]<br />
[Tile Docent leads tile group over to the windows of untitled free, and crosses the<br />
hall into tile space of the f(iilnischer f(unstverein.] Docent: In nineteen ninety-six<br />
Tiravanija, having won the prize from the K6ln-based Central Insurance<br />
Company (which is comprised of a six month stay in the city of Cologne,<br />
Germany), was commissioned by the company to produce a work for an<br />
exhibition at the K6lnischer Kunstverein. What we are looking at is a structural<br />
replica in full scale of Tiravanija's apartment in New York. Tiravanija had lived in<br />
this apartment for almost twenty years up to that point. It is a four-flight walkup<br />
in a tenement building. The original apartment is very old. The apartment<br />
number is twenty-one, actually a lucky number for Tiravanija, as he was also<br />
born on the twenty-first day. The actual title of the exhibition is untitled in<br />
parenthesis tomorrow is another day. The phrase 'tomorrow is another day' came<br />
from the director of the Kunstverein himself, Udo Kittelmann - an utterance<br />
often used as an expression of relief and resignation. But for Tiravanija it was<br />
about the inevitability of daily life. tomorrow is another day was for Tiravanija a<br />
work where all his essential ideas came together. Tiravanija has often said that<br />
his work was 'about use, and through this use meaning is constructed'. Here we<br />
see the apartment which was opened for three months and was open twentyfour<br />
hours a day, six days a week (it would have been seven days but German<br />
labour laws prohibited the work being open on Sundays). This was perhaps the<br />
first and only time an exhibition space was left open with fuII access. For the<br />
three months it was open people came and stayed in the apartment; they<br />
cooked, they ate, they bathed (everything functioned in the apartment replica as<br />
in a normal habitat), they slept, got married, had birthdays, many, many<br />
performances of music and otherwise; the space surrounding the apartment<br />
became a garden. Many, many people spent a lot of time in and around the<br />
apartment, and they shared their time and space together. They drew and wrote<br />
notes, comments, drawings, young and old. It was an open house and, against<br />
expectations, nothing terrible happened. Tiravanija left K6ln soon after the<br />
apartment opened. He left everything he had brought (house-wares, TV, stereo,<br />
kitchenware ... etc.) for his stay at the residency ... nothing went missing and in<br />
fact people left more things behind, things of value and useful things. [Tile<br />
Docent takes the group through to the next and last space ... while walking the<br />
Docent continues with the dialogue ... ] Docent: Similarly to untitled in parenthesis<br />
tomorrow is another day ... now at this point you may have all noticed that<br />
Tiravanija//No Ghosts in the Wall// ISI
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