Project Series: #LoveBooksByArtists №3 - Popo-Post Art Group

Special Project — #LoveBooksByArtists is a series featuring bi-weekly selections of a single artist book from Tai Kwun Contemporary's Artists' Book Library—a growing collection of Asia-centred, artist-driven publications.

Headquartered in WhatsApp group chats, Hong Kong's Popo-Post Art Group rejects the comforts and demands of a physical studio. In opposition to how the logic of finance and real estate limits possibilities for affordable places to live and work, Popo-Post Art Group makes use of idle and underrated spaces for their creative endeavours. Here is their guide for some real rest and recuperation. This week, Associate Public Programmes Curator Hera Chan selects 'Real Estate Zine: Bedtime Story' (2019). The zine takes the bed as a unit of measure, with the idea having evolved from a 'bed-sized' exhibition based on the premise of a model home. Thinking of the bed as a measuring device, or as a saleable lot, what kind of inhabitation is possible within this scaled-down rectangle? The zine offers up answers, with in-depth analyses of sleeping positions, bedtime literature reviews, and practical how-tos—including tips for falling asleep and dreaming sweet dreams. This is the first publication made by this emergent artist collective, and indicative of other Hong Kong-based art groups that frequently produce small-scale zines, related ephemera, and pop-up events.

Last year, Popo-Post Art Group also took part in 'Under-Cover: Investigations in Art Publishing', an Artists' Book Library programme series curated by Hera Chan, Ingrid Pui Yee Chu and Louiza Ho that highlighted practitioners using books as a medium of artistic expression.

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