Postnordisk

Jonas Ekeberg

Denne boken utgjør den første omfattende presentasjonen av nordisk kunst og kunstliv i overgangen fra postmodernismen til det som i dag kalles «samtidskunstens epoke».

These are Situationist Times!

Ed. Ellef Prestæter

These are Situationist Times! An Inventory of Reproductions, Deformations, Modifications, Derivations, and Transformations provides an in-depth history of the magazine while probing its contemporary relevance. The book also presents the material De Jong assembled in the early 1970s in collaboration with Hans Brinkman for a never realized seventh issue of The Situationist Times, devoted to the game of pinball.

Krabbe

Marianne Hurum

Krabbe is a presentation of a selection of Marianne Hurum´s paintings dating 2016 to present. Her work is central in the recent years´ development of Norwegian painting. The book presents two new essays contextualizing Hurums work by young art historians Ellef Prestsæter and Maria Horvei. The book is designed by Levi Bergqvist and Carl Gürgens and printed at the famous Göteborgtrykkeriet. Krabbe also presents a small selection of
Hurum´s sculptural works.

To accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish if for myself

Liv Bugge

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.

Concrete Oslo

Eds. Erik Fenstad Langdalen, Andrea Pinochet, Léa-Catherine Szacka.

Concrete Oslo gives the reader an opportunity to explore a great number of buildings, structures and objects through curated tours across the city. But more than mere tourist guide, this book is an opportunity to reflect upon an enigmatic building tradition and to engage with the city, in literal and physical ways.

Writings, conversations, scripts

Ane Hjort Guttu

Writings, Conversations, Scripts is the first survey of texts works by Ane Hjort Guttu. Written between 2003 and 2018, the texts range from public statements, poetic short prose, film scripts and reflections on the role of the artist to essays on art for children and the link between light and wealth.

Segunda Vez: How Masotta was Repeated

Dora Garcia

Segunda Vez is 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. The project has yielded a full-length and four medium-length films by Dora García, two Cahiers documenting the research, and this book.

Segunda Vez: Cahier No. 1

Dora Garcia

Segunda Vez is a film and research project centered around the figure of Oscar Masotta (Buenos Aires, 1930, Barcelona, 1979), an author, psychoanalyst, and happenista. Segunda Vez uses the figure and work of Masotta to explore the intersections between performance, psychoanalysis, and politics, paying special attention to narrative strategies such as repetition and metafiction.

Segunda Vez: Cahier No. 2

Dora Garcia

Segunda Vez is a film and research project centered around the figure of Oscar Masotta (Buenos Aires, 1930, Barcelona, 1979), an author, psychoanalyst, and happenista. Segunda Vez uses the figure and work of Masotta to explore the intersections between performance, psychoanalysis, and politics, paying special attention to narrative strategies such as repetition and metafiction.

Aktuell #1 Azar Alsharif

Aktuell is a series of publications presenting work by contemporary artists based in Norway. A collaboration between Torpedo Press and Kunsthall Oslo, Aktuell offers compact English-language monographs on both emerging and established artists, focusing on work that has not been addressed by existing publications. Images from the artists' practice are central to the series, contextualised by commissioned essays and interviews.

LIBRARY

Line Viste Grønli

Published by List Center and Torpedo Press. LIBRARY is an artist’s book which includes writings by the artist and an essay on statistical linguistics by curator Alise Upitis (61 pgs, b/w, edition of 250)

lawlessness of dreamscolour palette

Guðrún Benónýsdóttir

When I Go Out I Bleed Magic

Ingrid Torvund

When I Go Out I Bleed Magic er en artists book bestående av 280 tusjtegninger fra perioden 2011-2013. Tegningene gir assosiasjoner til en mytologisk verden der det eksisterer hedenske og kristne symboler om hverandre som drager, engler, kors, demoner troll og snakkende dyr. Ingrid Torvunds mystiske eventyrunivers er uten en narrativ fortelling og står dermed i motsetning til tradisjonelle eventyr som ofte har et klart moralsk budskap.

Weeds & Aliens

Benjamin Huseby

Huseby’s first monograph is all at once a field guide, a photography book and an eco-polemic. The photographs are of plants he has found between his home and studio in Berlin over the last five years.

Modelling Time: The Permanent Collection 1925-2014

Mari Hvattum & Mari Lending

Modelling Time: The Permanent Collection 1925–2014 chronicles the exhibition Model as Ruin at the House of Artists in Oslo, November 1 – December 15, 2013. Together with master students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Mari Hvattum and Mari Lending brought a unique, modernist model collection out of the archives, re-exhibiting it at the venue that once hosted its biggest ever display in 1931.

B and or an Exhibition Guide

Valentinas Klimašauskas

In B and/or an Exhibition Guide in Search of its Exhibition, Klimašauskas is using imaginary or language based artworks and artefacts by various, including, fictional artists to stage situations for written exhibitions that might be set or located in someone’s head, Palaeolithic Chauvet cave, a collage of footnotes, floating in memory or the outer Solar system with Voyager 1, to mention a few.

Theory of the Square

Matthew Rana

The Theory of the Square can stand for:
a comedy of invariance
a speculative reading of The Origins of Geometry and/or Difference and Repetition
a study on Falstaff, et al.
an appropriation of humoral thought
the shape of opposition
poems written on a diagonal

With the Free Rider into the Oil Age and Beyond

Eline McGeorge

The book contains a transcription of a video montage work of the artist with the same title and maps the video’s references in a narrative text in both Norwegian and English. The Norwegian version is in the front and the English version in the back. The middle of the book consists of a drawn sequence from the animation process for the video.

FRANK: Postscript on Curing Normality

The publication recounts the film and speaker series Curing Normality, marking the 40th anniversary of the decriminalization of male homosexuality in Norway. Postscript on Curing Normality features a talk given by Gerd Brantenberg, an introduction by Sille Storihle and archival footage tracing “homosexual life” in Norway since 1972.

FRANK: Volupså

Voluspå marks the 100-year anniversary of the Norwegian suffrage movement. 2013 has been a year for celebrating women, feminism and equality, and through the book FRANK comments on the centennial and questions the established narration of feminist history. It serves as an exploration of this lineage in Norway and Sweden through the lives and works of artists and writers.

The Institute of Art and Crime

Sebastian Makonnen Kjølaas

The Institute of Art and Crime has just opened, and the newly acquired museum curator sets out to explore subversive themes with a set of sensational and critical tools.The story unfolds as a dramatized encounter between the artist, the psychopath, and the junky, who by accident meet on a park bench.The subsequent visit to the institute gradually degenerates as the curator gives a narrative representation of a wide variety of criminal elements in art.

Independence - Collaborations and Artist's Initiatives

The book is a continuation of the exhibition, (I)ndependent People – Collaborations and Artist Initiatives, Reykjavík, 2012. This anthology contains commissioned texts that investigates notions of shared artistic practices, informal communality and the alternative histories specific to the Nordic region.

The Aesthetics of Investigation

Bodil Furu

Over the past ten years, Bodil Furu has emerged as one of the most significant Norwegian video artists. She has developed an unmistakable visual language, embedded in documentary realism, and unites abiding humanistic questions with current concerns relating to globalisation and the increasing mediation of reality.

Casual Maneuver - A Step Away From It

Jon Benjamin Talleris & Ruben Steinum

The artists’ book Casual Maneuver: A Step Away From It is made by the Oslo-based artists Ruben Steinum and Jon Benjamin Tallerås. The photographs in the book document almost one hundred unannounced temporary sculptures made in public space over the past three years.

Great! I’ve written something stupid

Geir Haraldseth

The projects featured in Great! I’ve written something stupid have been selected from a vast pool of endeavors by curator and critic Geir Haraldseth. Most of the exhibitions have been done in project spaces or in artists run spaces, while the writing has been sampled from different sources.

Stretchers

Marianne Hurum

Stretchers develops Hurum´s ongoing sculpture project that takes the stretcher frame as its form of departure.

Baby Snakes Hatching. Ruins. Ruins

Mai Hofstad Gunnes

Baby Snakes Hatching. Ruins. Ruins refers to the film with the same title, where the life cycle of snakes are connected with architecture. The content of the book is based on research material from the exhibition project. The pictures are taken from books in the archives of, amongst others, Naturkunde Museum, Berlin, Warburg Institute, London and Baukunst archive, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin. Erlend Hammer and Emily Verla Bovino has written essays for the book.

Poetical Assumption

Karl Larsson

«Writing starts with an assumption. There has to be space in which work can evolve - let's assume a context. There has to be a medium in which to communicate - let's assume a language. There has to be someone out there to receive it all - let's assume a reader. In Christianity, assumption stands for the bodily translation of an individual, from earth to heaven, and in a military terminology, assumption is (yet) another definition of taking control or power over a
region. What is po...

You Make Me Want To Die In The Country Side

Liv Bugge

Initially published as a three-part series in Blackwood’s Magazine during 1899 before its combined publication in 1902, Heart of Darkness tells the story of Marlow, an Englishman, who accepts a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as cap- tain of a ferry-boat in Africa.

An Aggregation of Adversary

Marius Engh

At the heart of Engh’s practice is an interest in the polymorph – the capacity of an object to take on different identities and functions depending on its context. Engh’s work goes far beyond mere documentation of the place and its scenarios to grasp the subjects of his search by creating clones of the original.

KARAVANE: Kjartan Slettemarks Nixon Visions

Boel Christensen-Scheel

Fra 1971 til 1974 arbeidet Kjartan Slettemark med en serie som senere er blitt hetende Nixon Visions. Portrettet av den amerikanske presidenten Richard Nixon ble brukt som gjennomgangsfigur i performance, maleri, politiske aksjoner, workshops og sosiale happenings på en måte som både var radikalt nyskapende og sterkt provoserende. Boel Christensen-Scheel undersøker hvordan Slettemark i Nixon Visions bryter ned motsetningen mellom liv og kunst til en performativ eller ”br...

KARAVANE: Victor Linds Monument

Erling Moestue Bugge

Victor Linds Monument av Erling Moestue Bugge er første utgivelse i essayserien Karavane, der forfattere fra ulike fagfelt skriver om kunstverk som har hatt innvirkning på sin tid og bidratt til å utvide kunst- og samfunnsdebatten.

Fluxus

Fluxus is a cross-disciplinary phenomenon whose roots go back to the 1960s and 70s and which attracted many of the experimental artists of these decades. Naturally enough, its core venue of activity in Norway became The Henie Onstad Art Centre in Oslo, which was the cradle of experimental art in the country at this time.

Hito Steyerl

Film as essayistic collage is central to Steyerl’s works. She combines own recordings withscenes from Hollywood movies and documentary material in various works, operating withindifferent rhythms and time intervals. Her films criticize an understanding of the documentaryimage as a bearer of history and authenticity and as an object of empathy and identification.

Music for the Videos of Lars Laumann

Published on the occasion of the Lars Laumann exhibition at Kunsthalle Winterthur, October 10- November 2010, in collaboration with Maureen Paley and Kunsthalle Winterthur.

Favoured Nations: Momentum 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art

Retrospective

Steinar Haga Kristensen

Texts by Matias Faldbakken, Gaby Hartel, Elin Seip, Pernille Albrethsen, Kjetil Røed & Leander Odin Djønne
Works by Steinar Haga Kristensen

Sketches For A Mechanical Sunrise

Espen Dietrichson

Sketches For A Mechanical Sunrise is the first major presentation of Espen Dietrichson’s work and reveals a production with an unique sense for perfection and dramatic presence. With a number of significant solo exhibitions and major projects to his credit, Espen Dietrichson has in an impressively short time invented a simple, yet complex language of his own.

Tekster i utvalg (1964–2008)

Håkon Bleken

Tekster i utvalg (1964–2008) inneholder tekste skrevet av kunstneren fra tidlig i hans karriere og frem til i dag. Håkon Bleken er godt kjent blant norsk kunstpublikum
for sitt samfunnsmessige og politiske engasjement. Det er derimot mindre kjent at han har en omfattende produksjon og publisering av essays, kronikker og debattinnlegg i aviser, tidsskrifter og magasiner. Boken bringer for første gang sammen et bredt utvalg av denne delen av Blekens produksjon,
samtidig som det gir e...

Kunst og prekaritet

Eivind Slettemeås

Kunst og prekaritet drøfter to hovedtemaer innen det sist tiårets diskusjoner om kunst, kultur og økonomi: på den en siden kunstneren som rollemodell for omorganisering innen ulike sektorer i arbeidslivet og den kreative økonomien. På den annen side debatten om utsatte arbeidsforhold avledet av den kritiske prekariseringsdiskursen (prekær=utsatt,usikker).

No one here is Innocent

Kjersti G. Andvig

In July 2006 Kjersti Andvig proposed to a Texas death row inmate, Carlton Turner, to reproduce, in a scale of one to one , the place of his incarceration in knitwear (!). Because of regulations forbidding any sharp objects inside of high security cells, Kjersti knitted the piece herself, following the inidications of Carlton (measures, drawings, slogans, colours..).

A Fiesta of Tough Choices

A Fiesta of Tough Choices is published in collaboration with the international studio program in Sweden (IASPIS).
The publication expands on the festival-inspired exhibition and two seminars held at IASPIS, on the occation of the
Swedish government’s declaration of 2006:Year of Cultura Diversity. The publication not only documents, but takes the discussion from this seminar a step further with new text and art projects.

The New Administration of Aesthetics

Eds. Tone Hansen & Trude Iversen

The New Administration of Aesthetics is an anthology that continues from the different contributions at the conference with the same name, held in Oslo in April 2006. Like the 
conference, this book pose questions about recent changes in the art institution, and how this affect those involved. New institutional models and organizational methods seem to have the effect of polarisation rather than coherence.

What Does Public Mean? Art as a Participant in the Public Arena

Ed. Tone Hansen

What Does Public Mean? Art as a Participant in the Public Arena is an anthology edited by artist and research fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, Tone Hansen. This publication is the inaugural title from Torpedo Press. The book addresses the political, analytical, and critical potential of the art arena, by focusing on projects and
accounts of actions that take place outside the establishe institutions.