EventsThe New Social Environment#1230
Like Water
Featuring Dean Daderko and Jo-ey Tang
Friday, May 16, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Ferring Foundation Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Dean Daderko joins curator Jo-ey Tang for a conversation. We conclude with a reading by K. Curtis Lyle
In this Talk
Dean Daderko

Dean Daderko is the Ferring Foundation Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM). Their most recent exhibition, Like Water, includes commissions and artworks by Jamal Cyrus, Simone Fattal, Dionne Lee, Candice Lin, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, and Vivian Suter, and addresses landscape simultaneously as a physical, material condition and an interior emotional state. Prior to joining CAM, Daderko was Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where they organized exhibitions with LaToya Ruby Frazier, Joan Jonas, and Nicolas Moufarrege, among many others. Daderko is a member of the Advisory Board of Denniston Hill, a residency in Glen Wild, New York and a recipient of Curatorial Research Fellowships from Étant donnés Contemporary Art in 2008 and 2020.
Jo-ey Tang

Jo-ey Tang is an artist, writer, and curator, who experiments with the formats of versions, repetitions, and iterations as an ongoing engagement with time and its potential. He has served as Director at KADIST San Francisco, curator at Palais de Tokyo, arts editor of n+1, and Director of Exhibitions at Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design. His ongoing curatorial project arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified has taken place at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Palais de Tokyo; and Participant Inc, New York. Tang currently serves on the advisory committee of / (Slash), San Francisco, and is co-editor of Eloise Sweetman: Curatorial Feelings (Shimmer, Rotterdam).
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have K. Curtis Lyle reading.
K. Curtis Lyle

K. Curtis Lyle was born in Los Angeles, CA, and is a founding member of the Watts Writers Workshop. He collaborated with world renowned saxophonist Julius Hemphill, and his poem Drunk on God features on the album Julius Hemphill Big Band. Lyle’s published titles include Electric Church, The Epileptic Camel Driver Speaks to a Refugee Death, and Nailed Seraphim. His recording 29 Birds You Never Heard with musicians George R. Sams, Adu Bu Dharma Joshua Weinstein, Damon Smith, Ra Kalaam Bob Moses, and Henry Claude dropped in 2024. Lyle is based in St. Louis, MO and Mérida and Oaxaca, Mexico.
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 🌈✨