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Temporary Press publishes books around art and design with an interest in ideas and practices exploring alternative or incidental notions of design. With limited resources, the press relies on economical design and production methods, often with a black-only Risograph and simple tools. Based in Singapore since 2018, Temporary Press is run by gideon-jamie and distributed internationally by Idea Books (ideabooks.nl). Contact us via email (temporarypress@gideon-jamie.com) or IG (@temporarypress

Postcards from Another Mad Afternoon at Home

$30.00

by Atelier HOKO, 2019

edition of 200
364 pages, Risograph printed in black and yellow
165 × 105mm, softcover (glue bound)

ISBN 978-981-14-1723-8

As part of Atelier HOKO’s ongoing research and explorations into what they refer as the ‘science of the secondary’ (the implicit conditions existing in our experiences of the everyday), they initiated a performative and instructional postcard activity that investigates our behaviours and interactions with the common door, window, and pipe in living spaces. A large selection of the postcard responses received by mail are put together in this postcard-size book as a collection of participatory notes and drawings to Atelier HOKO’s seemingly ridiculous instructions.

Founded by Alvin Ho and Clara Koh, Atelier HOKO is an independent research lab studying the growing disengagement between people, things, and space.