Accattone #9 is the ninth instalment of the Belgian journal that treats each issue as a montage — an exhibition on paper assembling minor practices in art and architecture around a shared conceptual tension: the push and pull between affirmation and denial.
About This Book
Accattone operates outside the conventions of the architecture monograph or design annual. Each issue is built like a spatial argument — contributions set in relation to one another so that their positions towards reality, history, and representation resonate across the pages. Issue nine orbits the material and conceptual operations of dirt: a substance that confounds categories, returns things to ground, and resists the clean logics of architectural production. The result is a genuinely strange publication, one that places a reassembled art residency alongside a punk farm, cave construction alongside cars buried under asphalt, and rigorous theory alongside worm husbandry. Essential reading for practitioners interested in minor architectures, experimental publishing, and critical spatial practice.
Key Features
- 134 pages of montaged contributions spanning architectural theory, critical writing, and visual practice
- Contributions by Arnaud Eubelen, Emma Cocker, Maxence Grangeot, Baukunst, Jeremy Till, Sarah Wigglesworth, and others
- Notable case studies include a sandbag facade, a punk farm, the earliest cave construction, and cars buried under asphalt
- Published by Accattone
What You'll Discover
- How dirt functions as both material and conceptual operation — a ground for thinking about what architecture excludes, buries, or refuses to acknowledge
- The tension between affirmation and denial as a structural principle, played out across wildly disparate projects and texts
- What a "minor practice" in architecture and art might look like when assembled without hierarchy — residency, farm, cave, facade, and theory given equal weight
- How experimental publishing can itself become a spatial and critical act, with montage as methodology rather than layout choice
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 134
- Dimensions: 240 x 320 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9782960369106
- Publisher: Accattone
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and artists drawn to experimental practice, academics working in critical spatial theory, and readers who treat independent publishing as a site of genuine intellectual work.