Accattone #9 brings together a reflection on the ebb and flow between affirmation and denial as well as material-conceptual operations with dirt.
It features a reassembled art residency, furniture made from salvaged materials (and new bolts), drywall marquetry, a punk farm, the earliest cave construction, a lavatory covered in goose feathers, cars buried under asphalt, fake nails, gabion walls, hairy stuff, mud, a recipe for concrete rubble walls and slabs, a sandbag façade, theory fed to worms, a leaking fountain, theoretical fatbergs and the yes of the no.
With Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre and Sébastien Roy, Arnaud Eubelen, Matthew Stadler, Emma Cocker, Homo neanderthalensis via Sophie Verheyden and Jacques Jaubert, Hélène Frichot, Maxence Grangeot, Baukunst, TEN and Babini Geysen with Tiphaine Abenia and Olivier Campagne, Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth, Truwant + Rodet +, Willie Morlon.
Accattone explores minor practices in art and architecture through the specific means of the printed magazine. As an exhibition on paper, each issue is a montage of contributions whose shared positions towards reality, history and representation resonate with one another.
In the current landscape of non-commercial publications, Accattone's originality lies in the strong visual orientation and in the close association of methods, editorial devices and featured contents. Through these experiments, crossing the methods of artists-as-iconographers with emerging architectural practices, Accattone addresses critically a fundamental aspect of thinking and practice: the working document and the changing status of the image.
A-periodical, self-published in Brussels by two architects (Sophie Dars & Carlo Menon) and two graphic designers (Ismaël Bennani & Orfée Grandhomme), Accattone has gained international recognition and distribution in both professional and academic contexts, including the first Index Architecture Book Fair (Mexico City), the Venice Biennale, the ICA (London) and the CCA (Montreal).
Accattone is also an editorial platform publishing monographic and collective books.
