Torpedo

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. Located in the city of Oslo in Norway, Torpedo organize discursive activities, exhibitions and events related to the process of publishing.
Torpedo is run by Elin Maria Olaussen and Karen Christine Tandberg. From 2013-18 they managed the Torpedo bookshop satellite at Kunstnernes Hus. Since 2017 they run the project space PUB and established a joint distribution plattform Nordic Art Press (NAP) together with the graphic design studio Eller med a.
 
Oslo
 
12 titles
 
The River is Elsewhere - Images of Log Driving on the Glomma
2024
English edition
forthcoming
The River is Elsewhere is 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.
The Stonewall Nation
2023
English edition
(last copies available!)
20.00 14.00 €
Edited by artist Sille Storihl, The Stonewall Nation 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.
Jonas Ekeberg - Post-Nordic - The Rise and Fall of a Nordic Art Scene 1986–2006
2023
English edition
The first extensive survey of Nordic art during the transition from postmodernism to what might be called "the period of contemporary art".
Liv Bugge - Structural Magic
2022
English edition
New monograph.
FRANK
2021
English edition
A book that documents/closes the Oslo-based queer-feminist plattform FRANK, with a rich contributions list and many illustrations.
Don\'t rest, narrate
2021
English edition
(last copies available!)
A book about art, publishing and collaboration.
These are Situationist Times! - An Inventory of Reproductions, Deformations, Modifications, Derivations, and Transformations
2020
English edition
An in-depth history of the landmark situationist international periodical edited by artist Jacqueline de Jong from 1962–67. This lavishly illustrated publication features many previously unseen archival material, historical texts and new commissioned contributions.
Marianne Hurum - Krabbe
2019
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
A selection of recent works by one of the central figures in today's Norwegian painting.
Liv Bugge - To accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish it for myself
2018
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
This book forms part of Liv Bugge's artwork To accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish it for myself developed and produced under the auspices of Public Art Norway (KORO) in connection with the construction of new cell blocks at Eidsberg and Ullersmo Prisons.
Dora García - Segunda Vez - How Masotta Was Repeated – A research Project led by Dora García
2018
English edition
This publication documents a research made by Dora García for a video project on Oscar Masotta, pioneer of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Latin America and influential art critic. It features a selection of Masotta's writings as well as contextual essays on his work.
Liv Bugge - You Make Me Want To Die In The Country Side - A meditation on Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
2011
English edition
This artist's book gathers a collection of notes, excerpts, documentation, artworks and interviews that documents Bugge's reading experience of Conrad's Heart of Darkness as well as her own artistic practice.
Concrete Oslo
2018
English edition
sold out
A guidebook to Oslo's brutalist architecture.
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