Tomorrow is (for now) always here

The self-help site WikiHow promises its community quick and easy solutions to almost any problem: How do I eat ice cream? How do I punish someone with the evil eye? How do I find a sugar daddy? No problem can be so big that it can’t be solved in a few well-explained steps. But can a website also help you to fall in love? Establish human closeness? The protagonist in Tomorrow Is (For Now) Always Here tries to do just that – while sitting alone in her flat in front of the computer, she types her questions: How do I communicate online? How do I recognize that I am in love? How do I learn to wait? How do I manipulate? And the platform answers, gives instructions for first dates, interesting conversation topics, optimal embraces and perfect walks. The young woman delves deeper and deeper into the advice, which gives her a sense of security in dealing with the world. But on the other side of the virtual perfection is radical loneliness, the abandonment of interpersonal relationships and the moment of emptiness when the computer shuts down, the screen goes black and the idea of great love dissolves into nothingness. 

By contrasting a young woman’s real longing for genuine closeness with the bizarre tips given in Internet guides, Iva Brdar’s Tomorrow Is (For Now) Always Here creates an image that is as desperately funny as it is deeply melancholic of a society that is searching for its centre and that has long since fallen for the exhortations to self-perfection.