Wild Seeds

Wild Seeds is KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS’s in house publishing house. Focusing on artists’ writing, poetry and fiction, Wild Seeds connects and expands upon the exhibition program, devising language and text based practices as complementary to art making. Founded in 2021 in Vienna, it uses the pocketable format as a an experimental tool of expression.

Ruth NOVACZEK, Altneu, Wild Seeds, 2021, © Ruth NOVACZEK

88 pages, 12.8 × 20.8 cm, 150 ex.
ISBN 978-3‑200-07869‑7

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Olivia ERLANGER, Appliance, Wild Seeds, 2022, © Olivia ERLANGER

Appliance includes five new essays by the Erlanger, each focusing on the history of a domestic appliance and how it is constructed in the cultural imagination. The essays weave together anecdotes and personal narratives while examining these appliances’ deployment in art history, cinema, and pop culture. The book also includes the play Humour in the Water Coolant, performed on the exhibition’s opening night.
95 pages, 12.8 × 20.8 cm, 175 ex.
ISBN 978-3‑200-08592‑3

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The author’s ways in relating to four kins are inscribed into the depth of four geological faults in 1, 2, 3, 4. The piece is translated into multiple languages used by ancestors of the kins written about, and communities who hold relationships with the faults through time and space. The book marks, alongside with video installation work ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (The Earth Turned Green), a position to return multiple forms such as language and perceptions back into the conversion of inter-beingness.
63 pages, 12.8 × 20.8 cm, 175 ex.
ISBN 978-3‑200-09062‑0

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