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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Projects

  • Conversational (8)
  • Curatorial (7)
  • Editorial (8)
  • Exhibitionary (4)
  • Presentational (4)
  • Production (5)
  • Workshop (8)
  • Writing (14)
  • Zone Collective (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).

  • Studies in Character Development

    2024

    • Workshop

    Part of:Zone Collective

    character-studies-preview.mp4 

    Two hands hold a book open. Across the two pages, there is a photograph of objects on top of a black background. A red lego is discernible in the middle. White text appears at the bottom, on both pages.
    Two hands hold a book open. The left page is black, with white text at the bottom. The right page has a blurry image with a diagram, handwritten in black, on top. There is some text, written digitally in black, at the bottom.
    Four people sit around a table, on top of which there is printed material and pens and pencils. There two overhead projectors, one in each side of the table, projecting images to a wall. One of the people is writing on a sheet of paper, whose image is being projected on the wall.
    Handwritten notes, in several colours, have been written in a transparency sheet and left on top of an overhead projector's stage. A hand is partially visible, holding the corner of the sheet.
    A person's hands and arms are partially visible. They are writing, with a purple marker, on a transparency sheet, under a photograph. The sheet is on an overhead projector's stage.
    Several sheets of handwritten notes and printouts with notes have been laid on a table.
    A white sheet of paper with notes and drawings is at the edge of a table. There are pens and pencils around it. The hand of the person sitting in front of the sheet can be see on the bottom right corner.
    Several sheets with handwritten notes, printouts with notes and a photograph have been laid on a table. There are also pens and pencils, three glass and two scissors. Five people are partially visible around the table.
    Several sheets with handwritten notes, printouts with notes and a photograph have been laid on a table. There are also pens and pencils, a glass and a can of beer. Three people are partially visible around the table, one of them has their hand on top of one of the sheets.
    Several sheets with handwritten notes, printouts with notes and a photograph have been laid on a table. There are also pens and pencils, a smartphone and a can of beer. The laps and arms of three people, who are sitting around the table, are visible.

    character-studies-reading-1.mp4 

  • Collective Annotation Sessions

    2022 – ongoing

    • Workshop

    Part of:Zone Collective

    Two people sit in front of a projection and a flip chart easel. On a table, in front of them, there is an overhead projector and several sheets of paper and other printed material.
    Two people are sitting, facing the same direction. Behind them, there is wall projection of a red block with the words
    Three people are next to a table. Two are sitting and one is standing up. On the table, there are sheets of paper with handwritten notes and an overhead projector.
    A person stands in front of a projection of a black-and-white diagram.
    A white sheet of paper with notes, handwritten in different colours, has been stuck to the wall with two thin strips of black tape.
    A person is leaning over an overhead projector. They are making notes on the sheet on the projector's stage. The image is being projected behind him. Next to the projection, a white sheet of paper with notes, handwritten in different colours, has been stuck to the wall with two thin strips of black tape.
    At the edge of a long table, on top of which there are several sheets of paper, a person is leaning over an overhead projector. They are making notes on the sheet on the projector's stage. Next to them, someone stands in front of a flip chart easel.

    “Şimdicilik”ten şimdinin siyasetine doğru 

    Beyoğlu’nun yeni failleri 

  • Notes from the Table. A Not-Yet Manifesto

    2022

    • Writing

    Part of:Zone Collective

    Scans of a list and of a diagram appear next to each other. There are blocks of transparent yellow across the top of the list and bottom of the diagram. The words
    Black-and-white diagram, with a block which reads
    Black and purple diagram.
    Three images have been overlaid. At the back, a diagram has its blocks empty. At the front, two images with notes in blue and red have been superimposed.
    Close-up of diagram, where the words
    Close-up of diagram, where the words

    Notes from the Table. A Not-Yet Manifesto 

  • Zoning Play Complex

    2022

    • Workshop

    Part of:Zone Collective

    Six people sit around a rectangular table. There is a spotlight shining on the table; the space around it is in the dark.
    Kirila Cvetkovska (left) and Megan Hoetger (right). Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Zoning Play Complex* character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of *The Hauntologists*, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
    Julia Croft (left) and Yeukayishe Musariri (right). Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Zoning Play Complex* character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of *The Hauntologists*, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
    Antonella Fittipaldi. Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Zoning Play Complex* character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of *The Hauntologists*, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
    Elioa Steffen. Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Zoning Play Complex* character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of *The Hauntologists*, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Zoning Play Complex* character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of *The Hauntologists*, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Zoning Play Complex* character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of *The Hauntologists*, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Zoning Play Complex* character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of *The Hauntologists*, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Zoning Play Complex* character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of *The Hauntologists*, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Zoning Play Complex* character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of *The Hauntologists*, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.

    zpc-briefing.pdf [pdf, 71.39 KB] 

    zpc-menu.pdf [pdf, 50.88 KB] 

    zpc-placemat-position1.pdf [pdf, 22.07 KB] 

  • Cinema for Houseboats

    2021

    • Curatorial

    Part of:Zone Collective

    *Cinema for Houseboats I: Vlado Kristl* public program (October 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Screenshot. Vlado Kristl, *Don Kihot*, 1961. Animation; color; sound; 10:00 minutes. Courtesy of Filmmuseum München/Zagreb Film.
    Screenshot. Vlado Kristl, *Don Kihot*, 1961. Animation; color; sound; 10:00 minutes. Courtesy of Filmmuseum München/Zagreb Film.
    *Cinema for Houseboats I: Vlado Kristl* public program (October 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    *Cinema for Houseboats I: Vlado Kristl* public program (October 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Screenshot. Vlado Kristl, *Don Kihot*, 1961. Animation; color; sound; 10:00 minutes. Courtesy of Filmmuseum München/Zagreb Film.
    Post-screening discussion. *Cinema for Houseboats* public program film night (October 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

    more info on Vlado Kristl 

  • Drawing the Archive

    2021

    • Presentational

    Part of:Zone Collective

    Press image. *Drawing the Archive* public program performance-lecture series (September 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Video documentation still. *Drawing the Archive* public program session one (September 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Video documentation courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Video documentation still. *Drawing the Archive* public program session one (September 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Video documentation courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Video documentation still. *Drawing the Archive* public program session one (September 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Video documentation courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Performance-lecture materials. *Drawing the Archive* public program session one (September 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021.
    Performance documentation. *Drawing the Archive* public program session two (October 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021.

    dta-session-2_excerpt01.mp4 

    dta-session-2_excerpt02.mp4 

  • Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps

    2021

    • Exhibitionary

    Part of:Zone Collective

    Event announcement. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Design by Karoline Świeżyński.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema* *History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and* *a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema* *History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and* *a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema* *History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and* *a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema* *History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and* *a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema* *History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and* *a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema* *History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and* *a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema* *History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and* *a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Post-screening discussion. *Cinema for Houseboats* public program film night (October 2021). Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema* *History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and* *a History Made and Unmade by Maps*, When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam, July - October 2021. Photo: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

    sz-walkthrough.mp4 

    shadow-zones-handout.pdf [pdf, 230.02 KB]