Ville-in is an online hotel that hosts artists, artworks, discourses and events addressing the complexities of post-pandemic tourism, mobility and exchange as a form of multidirectional exchange between visitors, providers and organisers, in the light of the dichotomy of care and critique. It takes the form of an online hotel, a space of present potential of retreat and self care, while simultaneously establishing a space of scholarship (understood broadly and delivered in the form of a discursive program - pool-side discussions, small group lobby meetings and private one-on-one discussions, that morphs with an artistic program - live events (storytelling, artist talks, background music commissions, hotel room arrangements etc).


 

The hotel is a proposal for a hybrid exchange between visual and media artists, scholars, writers, poets, architects and interior designers, a platform to explore the notion of post-pandemic tourism, while not perceiving it as detached from other forms of tourism that have been challenged throughout human history or that have been facing extinction as a consequence of political and ecological transitions, for example the specific forms and qualities of Yugoslav tourism, cruise-ship tourism, all-inclusive tourism or dark tourism, to name just a few. Although the topics addressed on this platform are numberless, the Ville-in will focus on attentively curated topics for different tourist seasons. It is envisioned as a long-term, but still not endless project.

The name Ville-in also holds the connotation of French-meaning of Ville (city) and Inn as a form of tourist accommodation. The special focus of Ville-In hotel is the relationship between workers (the providers of care services, as well as physical workers - builders, cleaners, etc) and customers (the consumers of care services and accommodation), as these are linked to economic optimisations that are inherently linked to the organisation of political life and consequently to visibility. We therefore see the post-pandemic Ville-in hotel as a shape in which these political and social forms interact through a physical exchange of regulated imagery, materials, forms of speech, etc.