EventsCommon Ground#918
Storefront for Art and Architecture
Featuring José Esparza Chong Cuy and Nile Greenberg, with Brittany Adames
Thursday, October 12, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Storefront for Art and Architecture Executive Director and Chief Curator José Esparza Chong Cuy joins Rail Architecture Editor Nile Greenberg for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Brittany Adames.
In this Talk
José Esparza Chong Cuy

José Esparza Chong Cuy is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture. Before his role at Storefront, José served as the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), which he joined in 2016. Prior to the MCA, José was Associate Curator at the Museo Jumex. From 2007-2012 he lived in New York and held positions as Curatorial Associate at Storefront for Art and Architecture, Research Fellow at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, and contributing editor at Domus magazine. In 2013 he was Co-Curator of the Lisbon Architecture Triennial, titled Close, Closer. He is a graduate of Columbia University’s M.S. in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture.
Nile Greenberg

Nile Greenberg is a founding partner of ANY, a New York City based office that synthesizes structure, materials, culture, organizations and media as architecture projects. Greenberg is the editor of the Brooklyn Rail’s architecture section, is the co-author of The Advanced School of Collective Feeling (Park Books, 2023), and has taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP. He curated the exhibition Two Sides of the Border, inaugurated at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery and edited the synonymous book for Lars Muller. Greenberg has worked at MOS Architects, SO – IL, and Leong Leong in New York and Los Angeles, focusing on cultural and public architecture such as the Los Angeles LGBT Center and The Kitchen.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨