Torpedo

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Torpedo was founded in 2005, as a non-profit Bookshop and Publisher devoted to the promotion and production of artists' publications, art theory and critical readers. Torpedo organise discursive activities, exhibitions and events related to the process of publishing. Torpedo is run by Elin Maria Olaussen, Karen Christine Tandberg and Kim Svensson.

From 2013-2018 it managed the Torpedo bookshop satellite at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. From 2017 Torpedo ran the project space PUB on Rostockgata 28, Oslo, and established a joint distribution platform Nordic Art Press (NAP) together with Eller med a. The Torpedo space is now located on Sofies gate 11, Oslo. (2024)

Publications[edit]

  • The Stonewall Nation, ed. Sille Storihle, Oslo: Sille Storihle, and Torpedo Press, 2023, 96 pp. Engages the archival remains of a gay colony that a group of gay men wanted to establish in Alpine County in Northern California in the early 1970s. Publisher.
  • Hans Hamid Rasmussen, Elva er et annet sted – Bilder fra tømmerfløting på Glomma, afterw. Per Petterson, ed. Ellef Prestsæter, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and Blaker: Guttormsgaards arkiv, 2022, 138 pp. A story in pictures from the last years of log driving on the Glomma River in Norway. The book is both a work of art and a manual, an ‘ABC’ of log driving. Publisher. (Norwegian)
    • The River is Elsewhere – Images of Log Driving on the Glomma, afterw. Per Petterson, ed. & postf. Ellef Prestsæter, trans. Alison McCullough, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and Blaker: Guttormsgaards arkiv, 2024, 138 pp. Publisher. (English)
  • Aktuell #2. Elisabeth Haarr, eds. Will Bradley, Elin Maria Olaussen, Karen Christine Tandberg, and Kathrine Wilson, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and Kunsthall Oslo, 2021, 204 pp. A monograph on Elisabeth Haarr, with an interview by Lotte Konow Lund and photographs by Eline Mugaas. Publisher. (English)
  • Don’t rest, narrate - A book about art, publishing and collaboration, eds. Nicholas John Jones and Rachel Withers, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and PRAKSIS, 2020, 190 pp. Addresses the interrelationship of art, publishing and collectivity. Publisher. (English)
  • Jonas Ekeberg, Postnordisk. Den nordiske kunstscenens vekst og fall 1976-2016, Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2019, 632 pp. The first extensive survey of Nordic art during the transition from postmodernism to what might be called “the period of contemporary art”. Chapter 5. [4]. Reviews: Ørum (Kunstkritikk), Flåtter (Artscene). (Norwegian)
    • Post-Nordic: The Rise and Fall of a Nordic Art Scene, 1986-2006, trans. René Lauritsen, Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2023. Publisher. (English)
  • These are Situationist Times! An Inventory of Reproductions, Deformations, Modifications, Derivations, and Transformations, ed. Ellef Prestsæter, Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2019, 352 pp. A monograph about a magazine edited and published by the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong during the years 1962–67. TOC, Introduction. Publisher. [5] [6] (English)
  • Concrete Oslo, eds. Erik Fenstad Langdalen, Andrea Pinochet, and Léa-Catherine Szacka, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2018, 496 pp. Gives the reader an opportunity to explore a great number of buildings, structures and objects through curated tours across the city. Publisher. (English)
  • Ane Hjort Guttu, Writings, Conversations, Scripts, Berlin: Sternberg Press, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2018, 144 pp. The first survey of texts works by Ane Hjort Guttu. Written between 2003 and 2018. Publisher. Announcement. (English)
    • Tekster, Samtaler, Manus, ed. Rike Frank, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2018, 144 pp. Publisher. (Norwegian)
  • Dora García, Segunda Vez - How Masotta Was Repeated, Oslo: The National Academy of the Arts, and Torpedo Press, 2018, 319 pp. An art research project centered on the figure of Oscar Masotta (Buenos Aires, 1930, Barcelona, 1979), an author of groundbreaking texts about the Happening, art, and dematerialization, a pioneer of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the Spanish-speaking world, and a happenista. Publisher. (English)
  • Aktuell #1. Azar Alsharif, eds. Will Bradley, Elisabeth Byre, Elin Maria Olaussen, and Karen Christine Tandberg, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and Kunsthall Oslo, 2017, 52 pp. Publisher.
  • Lina Viste Grønli, LIBRARY, List Center, and Oslo: Torpedo Press, 61 pp. Artist's book. Publisher. (English)
  • Guðrún Benónýsdóttir, Lawlessness of dreams colour palette, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and Reykjavik: Uturdur, 2015, 34 pp. Artist fanzine. Publisher.
  • The New Administration of Aesthetics, eds. Tone Hansen and Trude Iversen, Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2007, 128 pp. An anthology that continues from the different contributions at the conference with the same name, held in Oslo in April 2006. Publisher. (English)
  • What Does Public Mean? Art as a Participant in the Public Arena, ed. Tone Hansen, Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2006, 145 pp. The inaugural title from Torpedo Press. Addresses the political, analytical, and critical potential of the art arena, by focusing on projects and accounts of actions that take place outside the established institutions. Publisher. (English)

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