RUTH NOVACZEK, Altneu 

Wild Seeds 1
Altneu is a collection of Novaczek’s poems and recent photographs taken by the artist during COVID-19 lockdown.
Inaugurating KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS’ publishing project Wild Seeds, it includes the exhibition accompanying text Deliberately Lost by writer and poet Eileen Myles.

“I’ve known Ruth Novaczek’s work for almost ten years but the rough and disarming paw of it reaches back much further than my knowing. She has made 35 films, she tells me some are lost, some deliberately lost. Tea Leaf from 1986 is the first one that’s ​“out there.” The lost thing you can find. Tea Leaf strikes me as the film was made at a moment in which pure autobiography vanishes from her work. It vanishes right at the start. I asked her why she made it, why she makes films at all and she said many things but she didn’t answer my question. So I’m going to make up her answer. She loves melodrama, she’s steeped in it but she’s disobedient to its unerring narrative. The feelings are right but the ending (the meaning) is wrong. Cause noirserves men. And Novaczek’s don’t. They’re sulky, irresolute.” extract from Eileen Myles’ text Deliberately Lost.

RUTH NOVACZEK
Altneu
2021

Edited by
KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS

Images by Ruth Novaczek
with a text by Eileen Myles

Designed by
FONDAZIONE Europa

88 pages
12.8 × 20.8 cm
Softcover with bookmark
ISBN 978 – 3‑200 – 07869‑7
Edition of 150
€ 20 + shipping

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This publication is supported by
City of Vienna
Friends of KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS

This publication was made in conjunction with the exhibition
RUTH NOVACZEK
Retrospective
31.8. — 30.10.2021
KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS, Vienna