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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Projects

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

The improvisational labor of dialogue and exchange in a semi-guided forum.

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).

  • book talk “Armed by Design”

    2024

    • Conversational
    Square with pink background. The book cover of
    Two copies of the book
    Two people are having a discussion in front of a screen showing an image and some text.
    Two people are having a discussion in front of a screen showing an image and some text. One of them is looking at the screen and the other faces their laptop.
    Two people are having a discussion in front of a screen showing several images.
    A hand is holding a book open, showing two pages with several posters.
    Two people are having a discussion in front of a screen showing an image. One of them is holding a poster, which the other person looks towards.
    A book has been left open on a table. There is a photograph on the left page and a text on the right. A small image on the right hand page says
    A hand is holding a book open. On the left page, there is a text written in French. There is an image on the right page.

    book webshop 

    Interference Archive 

  • screening “And still, it remains”

    2024

    • Conversational

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

    A person, squatting down, faces an arid area, with hills at the distance. They appears to be wearing a light blue long garment and a turban.
    A worn-out sign, with the word Zone still visible, hangs on a building. In the background, there is a hill in an arid area. A subtitle reads:
    Hands, arms and torsos of a group of four people. They are sitting around a rock, where they are placing small rocks on top of a square one of them is drawing.
    Arid area with sandy hills. A subtitle reads:
    Three people sit around a low table having a discussion. Two of them hold microphones. There is a book propped up on the table.
    Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
    Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

    LUX listing page 

    Framer Framed event listing 

  • radio show “Ditzcourse: Pleasure”

    2024

    • Conversational
    Drawing of a horse, in purple. Around it, there is a heart in different colours and stars in purple. Above the horse,
    Two people are sitting across from each other at a table. They both have microphones in front of them. Behind them there is a bookshelf and a wall with posters, postcards and other decor.
    Ditzcourse is a series of conversations with painter, body artist, writer and perfume collector Sands Murray-Wassink. Ditzcourse as in: ditzy, as in silly, but still making discourse. Thinking out loud. Sharing information. Meaning making in relation. As informal as possible. The series is initiated by Radna Rumping who has been in conversation with Sands for some years. The gift that keeps on giving. How to edit? For each episode of Ditzcourse a guest is invited, and a keyword is suggested. Everyone brings a power object or reference to the table. This time Megan Hoetger is joining, and the keyword is Pleasure. Megan Hoetger is a performance researcher, curator, historian and hard femme. She grew up in California, and now lives in Amsterdam. Sands, Megan and Radna met at the end of 2019 to start a collaboration, commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, that became Gift Science Archive: a database which archives relations and nearly 2,500 studio objects from the art/life practice of Sands. Gift Science Archive is also, as Megan puts it, ‘a fierce feminist demand to centre the messiness of feelings and thoughts and sharing in our processes of meaning production, knowledge transmission and history-making’. They stayed in a continuous exchange. Now they meet at the home of Sands in Amsterdam, where he lives with his partner Robin and cat Duman. In this episode, recorded on May 23th 2024, Sands, Megan and Radna talk about the too personal, vulvic space, anal space, being a feminist killjoy, noticing, a bad behaviour boat, and the pleasure of interpersonal connection. A full transcript and list of references is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lw2Wpaa88laQ8p0eCpn9mIBShmcKe5Jv/view
    Ditzcourse is a series of conversations with painter, body artist, writer and perfume collector Sands Murray-Wassink. Ditzcourse as in: ditzy, as in silly, but still making discourse. Thinking out loud. Sharing information. Meaning making in relation. As informal as possible. The series is initiated by Radna Rumping who has been in conversation with Sands for some years. The gift that keeps on giving. How to edit? For each episode of Ditzcourse a guest is invited, and a keyword is suggested. Everyone brings a power object or reference to the table. This time Megan Hoetger is joining, and the keyword is Pleasure. Megan Hoetger is a performance researcher, curator, historian and hard femme. She grew up in California, and now lives in Amsterdam. Sands, Megan and Radna met at the end of 2019 to start a collaboration, commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, that became Gift Science Archive: a database which archives relations and nearly 2,500 studio objects from the art/life practice of Sands. Gift Science Archive is also, as Megan puts it, ‘a fierce feminist demand to centre the messiness of feelings and thoughts and sharing in our processes of meaning production, knowledge transmission and history-making’. They stayed in a continuous exchange. Now they meet at the home of Sands in Amsterdam, where he lives with his partner Robin and cat Duman. In this episode, recorded on May 23th 2024, Sands, Megan and Radna talk about the too personal, vulvic space, anal space, being a feminist killjoy, noticing, a bad behaviour boat, and the pleasure of interpersonal connection. A full transcript and list of references is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lw2Wpaa88laQ8p0eCpn9mIBShmcKe5Jv/view

    transcript-ditzcourse-pleasure.pdf [pdf, 179.44 KB] 

    Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee full episode listing 

    giftsciencearchive.net 

    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website 

  • book talk “Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto”

    2023

    • Conversational
    Grey book cover appears inside a white frame, with small squares with colour at the top. The title
    Two people sit in front of a group of people. The person on the right holds a sheet of paper and a microphone.
    Three people sit in front of a group of people. The name of several artists (Adrian Piper, Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel and Senga Nengudi) is being projected in black text above them. The person to the left is holding a microphone.
    A black and white slide, where the following names have been written: Adrian Piper, Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel and Senga Nengudi.
    Three people sit in front of a group of people. Above them, an image of several drawings stuck to a pink surface is being projected. The two people to the left look up to the image.
    Art installation consisting of several photo prints of anuses glued to a linen canvas, which has been propped against a white wall. A brown nylon textile with silver stars is draped on the right.
    Screenshot of an Instagram story announcing the launch of Against Ageism, in an event with the author in conversation with Sans Murray-Wassink and Megan Hoetger.

    book webshop 

  • book talk “Take ‘Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting”

    2022

    • Conversational
    On top of a pink background and with a blue bar at the bottom,
    In a small indoor space, a group of people either socialise or look at books.
    Seen from above, two people sit next to each other. The person on the left holds a microphone. The person on the right looks at them, while taking a sip from a drink. There are bookshelves behind them.
    Two people sit next to each other. The person on the left holds a microphone. The person on the right is laughing and looking at the other person. There are bookshelves behind them.
    Two people sit in front of a group of people. The person on the left holds a microphone. There are bookshelves behind them.
    Graphic announcement for
    Graphic announcement for

    book webshop 

  • Collectivities Otherwise: Party Lines, Counterpropositions, and (Post)Socialist Spaces

    2022

    • Conversational

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    Nearly full lecture room. On stage, a person stands behind a podium. There is an image being projected on stage and in another screen, which is closer to the middle of the room. The image shows a feminine-presenting person with short hair in black-and-white.
    Nearly full lecture room. On stage, a person stands behind a podium. There is slide being projected behind them. It has a text, a painting and a photograph in black-and-white.
    A person stands behind a podium on stage. They looks towards another person, who is off-stage to their right. The person off-stage looks as if they are speaking.
    Four people sit on stage, around a low round table. A slide with a photograph and a short text is being projected behind them. The person to the left holds a microphone.
    Five people sit on stage, around a low round table. The person to the right holds a microphone and is gesturing with their left hand.
    Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
    Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

    spui25 event listing 

  • 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 

  • 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