Geoffrey Mak

2 weeks ago | theparisreview.org | Geoffrey Mak

By Geoffrey Mak April 28, 2025 On the night of July 24, 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa swallowed a lethal amount of Veronal, slipped onto a futon beside his wife, and fell asleep reading the Bible. The writer was thirty-five years old.

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Geoffrey Mak |Jake Nevins

The title of Christine Sun Kim’s lecture, “Deaf Death,” which I saw recently at The Whitney Museum, is sort of a joke. When you type “deaf” in iMessages, the iPhone auto-corrects it to “dead.” Yet Deaf culture, rooted in sign languages like ASL (American Sign Language), might actually be dying.

2 months ago | frieze.com | Geoffrey Mak

As someone who only speaks English, encountering the intricacies of American Sign Language (ASL) is like discovering quantum mechanics. Many works in ‘All Day All Night’, Christine Sun Kim’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, feature the artist’s native ASL, either manually signed with the body or graphically rendered in a notation of her invention (often accompanied by English captions).

Nov 1, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Geoffrey Mak

In this exclusive portfolio from Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, NYC’s nightlife leaders share their insights and origins alongside an essay by Geoffrey Mak exploring autonomy on the dance floor Summer spins out. I have barely enough in my checking account to last me two months in New York. My blood grows stale as I thumb through Instagram Reels. I spend my days wandering the grocery store, shoplifting sushi and cake with my oversized black Telfar shopper.

Oct 27, 2024 | frieze.com | Geoffrey Mak

A sprawling survey of more than 90 artists and collectives at 80WSE Gallery, ‘Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969–2001)’ examines how, during the latter part of the 20th century, individual Asian American artists succeeded in showing their work at the country’s highest institutions while the collectives to which they belonged remained at the margins.