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 is published by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and was co-published with California Institute of the Arts from 2002 to 2009. It is currently published by Central Saint Martins in editorial and research partnership with M HKA, Antwerp and UNIA arteypensamiento, Seville and in association with The University of Chicago Press.
In April 2006 Afterall Books was launched, with two new strands of publications to complement the journal: One Work and a series of Afterall Critical Readers. One Work is a library of small books, each title focusing on one important work of contemporary art through a single text. Afterall Critical 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 examining curation, titled Exhibition Histories, was 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
Afterall Online
Managing Editor: Melissa Gronlund
Editorial Assistant: Shumi Bose
Advertising Director: Berit Fischer
Design: Atwork
Programmer: Dorian Fraser
Moore @ The Useful Arts
Organisation
Afterall Journal
Editors: Nuria Enguita Mayo, Melissa Gronlund, Pablo Lafuente and Dieter Roelstraete
Managing Editor: Melissa Gronlund
Contributing Editor: Stephanie Smith
Editorial Assistant: Shumi Bose
Advertising Director: Berit Fischer
Art Direction & Typography Design: A2/SW/HK: Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel
Distribution and Publishing Partners: The
University of Chicago Press (UCP)
Afterall Books, One Work Series
Series Editor: Mark Lewis
Editor: Pablo Lafuente
Managing Editor: Gaia Alessi
Associate Editor: Caroline Woodley
Editorial Assistant: Louise O'Hare
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 Assistant: Line Ellegaard
Distribution: Koenig Books (Europe), D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers (outside Europe)
Design: APFEL - A Practice for Everyday Life
Afterall Critical Readers
Series Editors: Charles Esche and Caroline Woodley
Guest Editors: Will Bradley, Tanya Leighton and IRWIN
Distribution and Publishing Partners: The MIT Press and Tate Publishing
Design: Kaisa Lassinaro
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
Partners
