torna Residents
Sedef Karayel and Keyla Çavdar have been working remotely with torna on their project since July 2025. We are working towards a publication which will be part of the torna Research series.
See more of their notes and progress HERE.
Marlies van Hak worked at torna as the resident writer in August 2024. She was invited to work with torna small, a replica of one of old torna rooms made in 1:6th scale. The following year we published her book 'A writing residency, or conversation, and some of its characters'.
The book gathers letters and images, written and collected during the residency. It weaves together literature references and diary entries, reflections on temporary dwelling and site, encounters with local geographies, and perspectives on slow feminist work.
See more on Marlies' residency notes HERE and our final publication HERE.
Max Parnell worked at torna as the resident artist/writer in August 2024. He was invited to work with torna small, a replica of one of old torna rooms made in 1:6th scale. The following year we published his new novella 'notes on torna'.
During his residency Max worked within a parafictional lathe workshop, emptied out to give way to an unnamed sound technician, hired by a lathe operator to soundproof her workshop and research unidentified spectral noises within the region which has been the concern of unknown neighbours and subsequently the town council.
See more on Max's residency notes HERE and our final publication HERE.
French graphic designer and book-maker Faustine Duval worked at torna in 2023. She was invited to keep a diary and publish on here. She used the page as her notebook to scribble down thoughts, notes and plans.
See her torna residency blog HERE.
Cypriot artist and science researcher Sedef Karayel worked at torna in 2023. She was invited to keep a diary and publish on here. She used the page as her notebook to scribble down thoughts, notes and plans.
See her blog HERE.
UK based, American artist and performer Sandra Zanetti worked at torna in 2023. You can find her notes here.
See more HERE.
Turkish graphic designer Umut Altıntaş was our first resident artist in 2023. He was invited to keep a diary and publish on here. He used the page as his notebook to scribble down thoughts, notes and plans.
During his stay at torna, Umut looked at each and every artist book at the torna library and speculated more on what makes a book, what doesn't, what feels like a book and what book feels nice...
See Umut's torna residency blog HERE.
Australian writer/photographer Shannon May Powell worked at torna in June 2016.
See more on Shannon's residency notes HERE on this page and our final publication HERE.
Çizgi
Istanbul based artist İrem Günaydın worked at torna in 2016. During her residency she worked on her solo show to be opened at the end of her stay. See her torna exhibition HERE and the publications we published HERE.
My project might be to get warm. As long as this project is only a desire, I can turn it over every possible way and still it will not make me warm. But now I build a stove: the stove transforms the empty ideal which was my desire into something real : it affirms the presence in the world of someting which was not there before, and in so doing, denies something which was there before; before I has in front of me stones and cast ironnow I no longer have either stones or cast iron, but instead the product of the trasnformation of these elements . These objects, which I have produced by changing the state of things, will in turn change me.'
by Maurice Blanchot
İrem Günaydın - (2016)
In Each Other's Lectures
Between November 2015 and January 2016 Australian and Peruvian artists Kiah Reading and Pamela Arce worked at torna to develop an online piece "In Each Other's Lectures'.
On the occasion of this digital site, a 3-part edition of 40 books have been published by torna under the same name.
Find HERE artists' blog-diary they kept during the production of 'In Each Other's Lectures'.
SEE the online work HERE.
Kiah Reading & Pamela Arce - (2015)
We Couldn't Even...
British artist Charlie Coffey worked at torna between 28.10.2015 - 07.11.2015
'There’s a story Rupert Everett tells about travelling with Julia Roberts. He picked her up in her hotel, where she greeted him barefoot in a towelling robe. They padded across the carpeted floor to the lift, then down to the carpark, where she stepped directly into the limo and drove to the airport. From the limo, she stepped on to the carpeted plane. It was only when they eventually pulled up at her house that an assistant appeared with a pair of slippers for her to take the four steps to the front door.'
Eva Wiseman (Property Goes Through the Roof Again, published in the Guardian, 30 August 2015)
Charlie Coffey - (2015)
Invisible Movements
Australian artist Caitlin Franzmann worked at torna between April - June 2014.
See more on her torna project HERE.
Also see our conversation HERE.
Caitlin Franzmann - (2014)
About torna | Collaborators | torna Publications | torna Residency | torna Research | torna Small | Shop