About

Afterall is a research and publishing organisation based in London. Founded in 1998 by Charles Esche and Mark Lewis at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, Afterall focuses on contemporary art and its relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context.

In 1999 Afterall, a journal of art, context and enquiry, was launched. Afterall offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. The journal was co-published with California Institute of the Arts from 2002 to 2009 and is currently published in association with M HKA, Antwerp and UNIA arte y pensamiento, Seville.

In April 2006 we introduced Afterall Books and launched two new strands of publications to complement the journal: One Work and a series of Afterall readers. One Work is a library of small books, each title focusing on one important work of contemporary art through a single text. Afterall readers look at significant areas of modern and contemporary art practice through the commissioning and reprinting of a collection of key texts, artists' statements and manifestos. A new series, titled Exhibition Histories, will be launched in 2010 in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Afterall Online continues the lines of enquiry explored through the journal and the books. It features specially commissioned and regularly updated material including interviews with artists about their art practice, photo-essays and texts on artist's projects, books and events.

Afterall also organises events including screenings, workshops, seminars and conferences in relation to its different research and publication projects, in London and elsewhere. Among these, we present a series of seminars with The Showroom.

Afterall encourages proposals for all its projects. For essay pitches for Afterall Online or Afterall journal, or proposals for Afterall Books, please email contact[at]afterall[dot]org with a short description of your proposal and your CV. We regret to say that due to the number of pitches we receive, we cannot guarantee a personal response to each one.

Afterall

Editorial Directors: Charles Esche and Mark Lewis

Publishing Director: Caroline Woodley

Events and Promotions Manager: Bopha Chhay

Picture Editor: Gaia Alessi

Afterall Online

Managing Editor: Melissa Gronlund

Advertising Director: Berit Fischer

Design: Atwork

Programmer: Dorian Fraser Moore @ The Useful Arts Organisation

Afterall Journal

Editors: Nuria Enguita Mayo, Pablo Lafuente and Dieter Roelstraete

Managing Editor: Melissa Gronlund

Contributing Editor: Stephanie Smith

Advertising Director: Berit Fischer

Advertising Representative (US and CAN): Grace Kim

Subscriptions Manager: Bopha Chhay

Intern: Raquel Villar-Pérez

Art Direction & Typography Design: A2/SW/HK: Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel

Afterall Readers

Series Editors: Charles Esche and Caroline Woodley

Managing Editor: Caroline Woodley

Distribution and Publishing Partners: The MIT Press and Tate Publishing

Design: Kaisa Lassinaro

Afterall Books, One Work Series

Series Editor: Mark Lewis

Managing Editor: Pablo Lafuente

Distribution and Publishing Partners: The MIT Press

Art Direction & Typography Design: A2/SW/HK: Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel

Afterall Books, Exhibition Histories Series

Series Editors: Sabeth Buchmann, Charles Esche, Teresa Gleadowe, Pablo Lafuente and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

Managing Editor: Lucy Steeds

Research Assistants: Kate Stancliffe, Louise O'Hare

Design: APFEL - A Practice for Everyday Life

Editorial Board

Will Bradley, Bart De Baere, Mark Dunhill, Kodwo Eshun, Elena Filipovic, Jean Fisher, Eungie Joo, Marta Kuzma, Dieter Lesage, Jeremy Millar, Emily Pethick, Tanya Popeau, Alex Sainsbury, Andreas Spiegl, Jan Verwoert, Catherine Wood