Geoffrey Mak is the author of Mean Boys, a collection of personal essays and cultural criticism forthcoming from Bloomsbury in April.

Geoffrey Mak

Matilda Berke

Drew Zeiba

Paige K. B. is an artist and writer from Los Angeles based in New York. She has staged solo exhibitions at Blade Study, KAJE, and Lubov and been included in thematic and group exhibitions at Somerset House in London as well as Simone Subal, Kai Matsumiya, the Broodthaers Society of America, and Theta in New York, in addition to contributing to Canal Street Research Association’s installation for the 2021–22 iteration of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1. Her work has been featured numerous times on Contemporary Art Daily and written about in 

 among other publications, and her own writing has been featured in numerous magazines, catalogues, and online platforms for over a decade including 

—where she was formerly an associate editor—

 (Matthew Marks, 2022) and her second book, 

, was published by S*I*G-Verlag in Berlin and released at Maxwell Graham in New York in October 2023. She has participated in readings at Artists Space, the Drawing Center, McNally Jackson, and on Montez Press Radio.

Paige K. B.

Camonghne Felix, poet and essayist, is the author of 

Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

 (One World, 2023), which was hailed by TIME Magazine and Vogue as one of the most anticipated books of 2023, and 

 (Haymarket Books, 2019), which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry.

Camonghne Felix

Coincidences are taken for signs, signs are taken for wonders. In a moment when technology has reached a complexity that is perceived as divine, a new spirituality is taking hold. Five writers—Matilda Berke, Paige K.B., Camonghne Felix, Geoffrey Mak, Drew Zeiba—read selections across disciplines that explore the theme of paranoia, conspiracy, madness, and faith.

”Signs and Symbols,” a night of readings curated by Geoffrey Mak