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  • Megan Hoetger, PhD
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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Projects

  • Conversational (8)
  • Curatorial (7)
  • Editorial (8)
  • Exhibitionary (4)
  • Presentational (4)
  • Production (5)
  • Workshop (8)
  • Writing (14)
  • Gift Science Archive (7) x

An archive of projects, collaborations, and engagements organized according to typologies of labor performed.

Upcoming

Thought-sounds, in collaboration with Paula Montecinos Oliva and After the siren, before the bell (a traveling sound system by Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter). Hosted by de Appel, Amsterdam on 7 April 2025.

“Active Archives. On Performance Curatorial Research and Historiographic Method” in The Routledge Companion to Performance Art, edited by Lucian O’Connor, et al. (Routledge, forthcoming 2025).

“Performances of Cinema, Performance Historiography, and Archival Counterapproaches” in Performance/Archiv, edited by Barbara Büscher, Franz Anton Cramer, and Ulrike Hanstein (VALIE EXPORT Center and University of Arts Linz, forthcoming 2025).

  • giftsciencearchive.net

    2022

    • Editorial

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    Homepage. *(link: https://giftsciencearchive.net/ text: giftsciencearchive.net target: _blank)*. Design by Kommerz.

    gsa.net-comm-animation.mp4 

    Preliminary sketch of cataloging elements and layout. *Gift Science Archive*, January 2020. Drawing by Megan Hoetger.
    Double page spread. *Gift Science Archive* catalog entry in (link: https://www.rijksakademie.nl/en/open-archive?attachment_id=ce2ac4cf-46be-4aee-acb7-66a43f5992fc&filters%5Bfilter_tag_ids%5D%5B%5D=d9af379e-359d-4b6c-ab0c-d5156d02ac95&filters%5Btag_list_option%5D=selected text: *We Had Plans: A book published on the occasion of the 150th year of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, which happened to coincide with a global pandemic during which resident artists continued to work collaboratively as well as individually on their respective practices, whilst also navigating what could be called expanded practice* target: _blank) (Amsterdam: Rijksakademie, 2021). Left:

    https://www.giftsciencearchive.net 

  • Honouring Sands’s Horsepower

    2022

    • Writing

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

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    hshp-scroll-through.mp4 

    hoetger_honouring-sands-s-horsepower.pdf [pdf, 1.56 MB] 

    giftsciencearchive.net/about 

  • COLLABORATION. How can we work together?

    2021

    • Conversational

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    Event listing. Sands Murray Wassink with Amalia Calderón, Megan Hoetger, and Radna Rumping, *COLLABORATION. How can we work together?*, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, June 2021.
    Roundtable discussion documentation. Sands Murray Wassink with Amalia Calderón, Megan Hoetger, and Radna Rumping, *COLLABORATION. How can we work together?*, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Ratu R. Saraswati.
    Roundtable discussion documentation. Sands Murray Wassink with Amalia Calderón, Megan Hoetger, and Radna Rumping, *COLLABORATION. How can we work together?*, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Ratu R. Saraswati.
    Roundtable discussion documentation. Sands Murray Wassink with Amalia Calderón, Megan Hoetger, and Radna Rumping, *COLLABORATION. How can we work together?*, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Ratu R. Saraswati.
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    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website 

    Rijksakademie Open Archive 

  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the ‘Gift Science Archive’, 1993–present

    2021

    • Exhibitionary

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can't Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can't Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can't Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can't Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can't Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can't Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of If I Can't Dance and mistral, Amsterdam.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Radna Rumping.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
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    in-good-company-bulletin.pdf [pdf, 759.32 KB] 

    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website 

  • Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)

    2021

    • Exhibitionary

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    Install documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *Without You I'm Nothing (Blue*), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Frédérique Bergholtz.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *Without You I'm Nothing (Blue*), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Tomek Dersu Aaron, courtesy of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *Without You I'm Nothing (Blue*), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Tomek Dersu Aaron, courtesy of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *Without You I'm Nothing (Blue*), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Tomek Dersu Aaron, courtesy of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *Without You I'm Nothing (Blue*), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Tomek Dersu Aaron, courtesy of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *Without You I'm Nothing (Blue*), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Tomek Dersu Aaron, courtesy of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation image. Sands Murray-Wassink, *Without You I'm Nothing (Blue*), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Tomek Dersu Aaron, courtesy of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.
    Performance documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger and Radna Rumping, *Backstage with Gift Science Archive*, Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Sander van Wettum, courtesy of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.

    without-you-i-m-nothing-blue-list-of-works.pdf [pdf, 202.53 KB] 

    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website 

  • RELATIONSHIPS. Feminist Legacies, Queer Intimacies

    2020 – 21

    • Editorial

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    Homepage project icon. Sands Murray-Wassink and Aimar Arriola, *RELATIONSHIPS. Feminist Legacies, Queer Intimacies*, (link: https://ificantdance.studio/archived-website/Gift-Science-Archive/overview.html text: www.ificantdance.studio target: _blank), June 2020 - February 2021.
    Chapter icon page. Sands Murray-Wassink and Aimar Arriola, *RELATIONSHIPS. Feminist Legacies, Queer Intimacies*, (link: https://ificantdance.studio/archived-website/Gift-Science-Archive/overview.html text: www.ificantdance.studio target: _blank), June 2020 - February 2021. Collage by Megan Hoetger.
    Perfume insert. Sands Murray-Wassink letter with insert in *(link: https://archive.perdu.nl/nl/archief/martha-jager/ text: Dear)*, a postal series initiated by Martha Jager and Sophie de Serière, Foundation Perdu, Amsterdam, June 2020.

    rflqi03a.mp4 

    Sands Murray-Wassink, *My Life is a Search For Like-Minded People*, 1996. Thought drawing; SMW A4 business stationery with fruit scented marker.
    Scan of materials sent by Sands to Aimar in September 2020. The background shows a fringed scarf from Aimar signaling the potentiality of loose ends. Pictured top: Sands Murray-Wassink, *Horse Painting* on fabric, 2018; pictured bottom: Sands Murray-Wassink, *I am even better than you think I am*, c. 2010. Postcard to be handed out based on Adrian Piper, *Calling Card #1 and #2* (1986-1990).
    Scan of materials sent by Sands to Aimar in September 2020. The background shows a fringed scarf from Aimar signaling the potentiality of loose ends. Pictured: Sands Murray-Wassink, *Call Me or Die*, 1998. Xerox copy of drawing on A4 paper.

    rflqi03b.mp4 

    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website 

    Aimar and Sands (Sands Music for us = Black & White) 2020 

    RELATIONSHIPS - full epistolary exchange 

  • VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?

    2020

    • Conversational

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    Left to right: Vivian van Saaze, Sands Murray-Wassink, Radna Rumping, Megan Hoetger. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Left to right: Vivian van Saaze, Sands Murray-Wassink, Radna Rumping. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Sands Murray-Wassink (left) and Radna Rumping (right). Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Left to right: Vivian van Saaze, Sands Murray-Wassink, Radna Rumping, Megan Hoetger. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
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    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website