ABOUT

A Prior Magazine is a series of publications on contemporary art. The magazine is published by vzw Mark, in English, in Ghent in collaboration with the University College Ghent and distributed all over the world in specialized art bookstores and museums. A Prior Magazine publishes two regular issues a year in which the body of work of an artist is discussed at large by means of visual and textual contributions. With an extensive portfolio and texts by various authors from different fields a substantial publication is established – always in close collaboration with the artist – offering simultaneously two additional artists the possibility to set up an artist’s project accompanied by a newly commissioned text.
A Prior Magazine is in fact compiled in a similar way as an exhibition: a multi-sided offer including different viewpoints however with an eye for some degree of affinity. After the monographic and artistic contributions, the last section of A Prior Magazine, VISIONS, consists of a series of textual as well as visual columns comments on contemporary developments and discussions in the fields of art and visual culture.
In addition A Prior Magazine occasionally collaborates with organisations or initiatives, within the larger field of visual culture, to publish EXTRA issues. The first of which will come out in December 2006 on the theme of Making Sense in the City, edited by Prof. R. Pinxten and Ann Van Dienderen.

A Prior Magazine is a contributor to documenta 12 magazines

GENERAL COLOPHON

Publisher: vzw Mark (A Prior Magazine), Ghent, Belgium

General Manager: Els Roelandt

Board of Editors: Ann Demeester, Sofie Lauwers, Raimundas Malasauskas, Els Roelandt, Dieter Roelstraete, Dirk Snauwaert, Aneta Szylak, Barbara Vanderlinden, Hilde Van Gelder, Andrea Wiarda, Anton Vidokle

Coordination and production: Els Roelandt, Andrea Wiarda

Distribution and communication: Andrea Wiarda

Founding editor (issues 1-8): Kurt Vanbelleghem

Layout: NN (Jurgen Persijn), Brussels, Belgium

Printing: Die Keure, Ghent, Belgium

Edition: 2000 copies

SUPPORT

Ministry of the Flemish Community
University College Ghent, department of Visual Arts and Design
IBK
The advertisers