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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Projects

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  • Curatorial (7) x
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The conceptual and organisational labor of assembling peoples, practices, and ideas.

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).

  • When Technology Was Female

    2024

    • Curatorial

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    A person looks towards a pull down projector, where a film is being projected. The image shows a person in a full orange suit and hat.
    Three people watch a film being projected on a wall of a hallway space. Two of them are sitting down, while the other stands up at the bottom of the stairs.
    A film is being projected on a screen. The image shows a head shot of a masculine-presenting person with a moustache. The image also appears partly reflected on a mirror to the left.
    Dark space. Only the projection of a still from Věra Chytilová's film
    Dark space. Only the projection of a film is visible. The image shows a feminine-presenting person touching the head of another person.
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    wtwf-handout.pdf [pdf, 370 KB] 

    Goethe-Institut event listing 

  • Active Archives: Performing Social Realities in Archival Contexts

    2022

    • Curatorial
    On top of a white background, the following is written in larger black text across the top
    Six people sit on stage around a low table. The first rows of the audience are visible.
    A group of people stand around the stage of an auditorium. Above them, an image of a person wearing earphones is being projected. Beneath it, to the right and to the left, two other projections show a slide with text, which reads
    Two people sit on stage. Above them, the face of a person against a dark blue background is being projected.
    A person sits in front of a laptop computer. Their reflection also appears on a glass in front. The image has an orange hue.
    Instagram story showing an orange light panel and some text.
    Schematic consisting of several small squares and some connecting lines.
    In a dark space, a person stands behind a control desk.
    Two sentences are projected in white on a dark space:
    People take their seats in a dark auditorium.
    Pink spotlights illuminate a dark surface.

    House of World Cultures event listing 

    full program recording 

  • How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice

    2021 – 23

    • Curatorial
    Homepage icon. Grant Watson with Anik Fournier and Megan Hoetger, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, (link: https://ificantdance.studio/archived-website/How-We-Behave/An-archive-of-radical-practice.html text: www.ificantdance.studio target: _blank), 2021-2023.
    Interview materials database. Grant Watson with Anik Fournier and Megan Hoetger, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, (link: https://ificantdance.studio/archived-website/How-We-Behave/An-archive-of-radical-practice.html text: www.ificantdance.studio target: _blank), 2021-2023.
    *COME TOGETHER Girlfriend*, cropped image taken from Facebook (full image by Mario Testino), supplementary database material. Grant Watson with Anik Fournier and Megan Hoetger, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, (link: https://ificantdance.studio/archived-website/How-We-Behave/An-archive-of-radical-practice.html text: www.ificantdance.studio target: _blank), 2021-2023.
    Interview materials database. Grant Watson with Anik Fournier and Megan Hoetger, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, (link: https://ificantdance.studio/archived-website/How-We-Behave/An-archive-of-radical-practice.html text: www.ificantdance.studio target: _blank), 2021-2023.
    CuNT pamphlet designed by Joy Mariama Smith, 2020, supplementary database material. Grant Watson with Anik Fournier and Megan Hoetger, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, (link: https://ificantdance.studio/archived-website/How-We-Behave/An-archive-of-radical-practice.html text: www.ificantdance.studio target: _blank), 2021-2023.
    Album cover. Care of the Cow, *Dogs' Ears are Stupid*, 1983, supplementary database material. Grant Watson with Anik Fournier and Megan Hoetger, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, (link: https://ificantdance.studio/archived-website/How-We-Behave/An-archive-of-radical-practice.html text: www.ificantdance.studio target: _blank), 2021-2023.
    Interview materials database. Grant Watson with Anik Fournier and Megan Hoetger, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, (link: https://ificantdance.studio/archived-website/How-We-Behave/An-archive-of-radical-practice.html text: www.ificantdance.studio target: _blank), 2021-2023.
    Exhibition installation view. Grant Watson, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, IHLIA — LGBTI Heritage at Oba Public Library, Amsterdam, December 2023 - February 2024. Photo: Maarten Nauw, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation view. Grant Watson, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, IHLIA — LGBTI Heritage at Oba Public Library, Amsterdam, December 2023 - February 2024. Photo: Maarten Nauw, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation view. Grant Watson, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, IHLIA — LGBTI Heritage at Oba Public Library, Amsterdam, December 2023 - February 2024. Photo: Maarten Nauw, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Exhibition installation view. Grant Watson, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, IHLIA — LGBTI Heritage at Oba Public Library, Amsterdam, December 2023 - February 2024. Photo: Maarten Nauw, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Left to right: Joy Mariama Smith, Szymon Adamczak, Sher Doruff. Public reading documentation. Grant Watson, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam, December 2023. Photo: Maarten Nauw, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Szymon Adamczak (left) and Sher Doruff (right). Public reading documentation. Grant Watson, *How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice*, If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam, December 2023. Photo: Maarten Nauw, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.

    hwb-suely-rolnik-script.pdf [pdf, 32.06 KB] 

    hwb-ramallah-transcript.pdf [pdf, 527.08 KB] 

    How We Behave studio project 

    Grant Watson website 

  • 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 

  • EXPRMNTL Nights

    2019

    • Curatorial
    *EXPRMNTL Nights* programme listing. Spring 2019 season booklet, Film Plateau University Film Club, Ghent University.
    Acknowledgements slide. Unknown film.
    Title Slide. Fugitive Cinema Production.
    Still. Herman Wuyts, *De Overkant*, 1967. 16mm film; b&w; sound; 10:00 minutes.
    Still. Robbe De Hert, *A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Golgotha*, 1974. Animation; color; sound; 6:00 minutes.
    Spring 2019 season booklet. Film Plateau University Film Club, Ghent University.

    EXPRMNTL documentary film homepage 

    more info on EXPRMNTL  

  • A Sentimental Punk: An Incomplete Kurt Kren Film Retrospective, 1956-1996

    2018

    • Curatorial
    Event poster. *A Sentimental Punk: An Incomplete Kurt Kren Film Retrospective, 1956-1996*, curated by Megan Hoetger and blackhole cinematheque. The Lab, San Francisco, California, September 2018. Design by blackhole cinematheque.
    Keynote lecture title slide. Megan Hoetger,
    Keynote lecture slide. Megan Hoetger,
    Screening program schedule, day one. *A Sentimental Punk: An Incomplete Kurt Kren Film Retrospective, 1956-1996*, curated by Megan Hoetger and blackhole cinematheque. The Lab, San Francisco, California, September 2018.
    Keynote lecture slide. Megan Hoetger,
    Keynote lecture slide. Megan Hoetger,
    Screening program schedule, day two. *A Sentimental Punk: An Incomplete Kurt Kren Film Retrospective, 1956-1996*, curated by Megan Hoetger and blackhole cinematheque. The Lab, San Francisco, California, September 2018.
    Keynote lecture slide. Megan Hoetger,
    Keynote lecture slide. Megan Hoetger,
    Screening program schedule, day two. *A Sentimental Punk: An Incomplete Kurt Kren Film Retrospective, 1956-1996*, curated by Megan Hoetger and blackhole cinematheque. The Lab, San Francisco, California, September 2018.
    Keynote lecture slide. Megan Hoetger,
    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.
    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.
    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.

    The Lab event documentation 

    Canyon Cinema event listing 

    Kurt Kren filmmaker website 

  • Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa

    2018

    • Curatorial
    Event listing. *Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa*, curated by Patrick Harrison and Megan Hoetger. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California, November 2018.
    Still. Kurt Kren, *31/75 Asyl*, 1975. 16mm film; black/white; silent; 8:00 minutes. Courtesy of sixpackfilm, Vienna.
    Still. Tomonari Nishikawa, *Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon*, 2016. 16mm film; color; sound; 10:00 minutes.
    Left to right: Megan Hoetger, Patrick Harrison, Tomonari Nishikawa. Post-screening discussion documentation. *Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa*, curated by Patrick Harrison and Megan Hoetger. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California, November 2018.
    Kurt Kren, editing score for *31/75 Asyl* as reproduced in Kren's self-published *No Film* book. Courtesy of San Francisco Cinematheque, California.
    Kurt Kren, editing score for *31/75 Asyl* as reproduced in Kren's self-published *No Film* book. Courtesy of San Francisco Cinematheque, California.
    Kurt Kren, editing score for *31/75 Asyl* as reproduced in Kren's self-published *No Film* book. Courtesy of San Francisco Cinematheque, California.
    Kurt Kren, fragment of a score as reproduced in Kren's self-published *No Film* book. Courtesy of San Francisco Cinematheque, California.
    Still. Tomonari Nishikawa, *Tokyo - Ebisu*, 2010. 16mm film; color; sound; 5:00 minutes.
    Left to right: Megan Hoetger, Patrick Harrison, Tomonari Nishikawa. Post-screening discussion documentation. *Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa*, curated by Patrick Harrison and Megan Hoetger. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California, November 2018.
    Into the Mass (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 6 min., double projection 16mm, silent, color, USA) The visual was originally captured through two Super 8 cameras, which were attached on the pedals of a bicycle, through my ride from Marin County to San Francisco. The time-lapse footage was optically printed onto 16mm film afterwards, and the double projection would show a new landscape of the photogenic city. The ride ended after joining Critical Mass, an event occurs the last Friday of every month in San Francisco.
    Into the Mass (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 6 min., double projection 16mm, silent, color, USA) The visual was originally captured through two Super 8 cameras, which were attached on the pedals of a bicycle, through my ride from Marin County to San Francisco. The time-lapse footage was optically printed onto 16mm film afterwards, and the double projection would show a new landscape of the photogenic city. The ride ended after joining Critical Mass, an event occurs the last Friday of every month in San Francisco.
    I buried a 100-foot (about 30 meters) 35mm negative film under fallen leaves alongside a country road, which was about 25 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, for about 6 hours, from the sunset of June 24, 2014, to the sunrise of the following day. The night was beautiful with a starry sky, and numerous summer insects were singing loud. The area was once an evacuation zone, but now people live there after the removal of the contaminated soil. This film was exposed to the possible remaining of the radioactive materials. This project is made possible with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; administered by Wave Farm.
    I buried a 100-foot (about 30 meters) 35mm negative film under fallen leaves alongside a country road, which was about 25 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, for about 6 hours, from the sunset of June 24, 2014, to the sunrise of the following day. The night was beautiful with a starry sky, and numerous summer insects were singing loud. The area was once an evacuation zone, but now people live there after the removal of the contaminated soil. This film was exposed to the possible remaining of the radioactive materials. This project is made possible with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; administered by Wave Farm.

    BAMPFA event listing 

    Tomonari Nishikawa filmmaker website 

    Kurt Kren filmmaker website