Geoffrey Mak

View of Matthew Gasda, Dover , Beckett’s, New York, 22 Januar 2023. Photo: Matthew Weinberger

View of Matthew Gasda, Dover, Beckett’s, New York, 22 January 2023. Photo: Matthew Weinberger

Tainted Love: on Matthew Gasda’s “Dover”

Is the tragic hero even possible in 2023? Not really. But Matthew Gasda’s latest play does confront us with the moral quandaries that come with drama, conflict, and power games.

Views

Rachel Rossin,  Moulting keyholes ad you tell me now  (2022) (detail)

Rachel Rossin, Moulting keyholes ad you tell me now (2022) (detail)

Signs and wonders

Rounding out Spike x Liste Expedition Monthly Picks for 2022, Geoffrey Mak finds in painter-hacker Rachel Rossin’s works a melancholy embrace of our fractured lives.

Discourse

Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, List of censored Artists , 2022. Installation view, documenta Halle, 2022, Kassel. Photo: Nicolas Wefers

Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, List of censored Artists, 2022. Installation view, documenta Halle, 2022, Kassel. Photo: Nicolas Wefers

documenta fifteen: Whose Side Are You on Anyway?

Attending documenta 15, Geoffrey Mak witnessed the dismantling of the controversial antisemitic piece and discovered solidarity.

Views

Cassidy Grady in Dimes Square (2022)

Down and Out in Dimes Square

A new play by Matthew Gasda takes on the politics and power-plays of a notorious Lower East Side locale.

People

Geoffrey Mak in front of "Avery Singer: Reality Ender" at Hauser & Wirth, New York.

Geoffrey Mak in front of “Avery Singer: Reality Ender” at Hauser & Wirth, New York

7pm in Manhattan

Former Berlin club scene it-boy and current Julien Ceccaldi expert Geoffrey Mak is new in New York. Will somebody please invite him to a party?