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  • Megan Hoetger, PhD
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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Projects

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

The collaborative labor of shaping print- and screen-based interfaces with artistic projects and research processes.

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).

  • Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara

    2024

    • Editorial

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

    Orange tinted photograph of an arid area with some vegetation and small rocks.
    Purple book cover.
    Top edge of book, with pages forming a colour gradient.

    ct-overview.mp4 

    Two people sit next to each other on a stage. Megan speaks into the microphone. At the front, slightly blurred, three people face the stage.
    Red tinted book spread, with eight photographs on each page. The photographs show a small building, a wire fence and small objects in a desert area.
    Red tinted book spread, with three photographs. The photographs show a desert area, a wire fence and two half buried unidentifiable structures.
    Pink tinted book spread, with three photographs. The photographs show cranes. On the right, the crane is lifting materials. Under the photograph,
    Pink tinted book spread, with four photographs. The photographs show a team of people dressed in full coverage white suits arriving at a base consisting of several low buildings.
    Book spread, with two scanned pages with three photographs. They are aerial photographs of one or several desert bases, consisting of several buildings of different sizes.
    A person is reading from a book, holding the microphone. Two people, one on each side, look towards the person with the microphone.
    Book spread, with two scanned pages with seven photographs. The photographs show different buildings and some structures under construction. The word
    Blue tinted book spread, with two photographs, one on each page, and a description for each of them. The photographs show two different feminine-presenting people in traditional dress.
    Blue tinted book spread. On the left page, a photograph shows a group of people sitting cross-legged. Across from them, someone holds a boom mic to the middle of the space. Everyone but the mic operator is wearing a turban. On the right page, there's the first page of an article on Mertoutek, accompanied with the photograph of a masculine-presenting person wearing a turban.
    In a lofty exhibition space, a group of people gather facing a stage. Many are sitting, others stand at the back. Around them, there are large screens, with photographs printed on them. On one of the screens, a video is being projected. On stage, four people sit on chairs.

    Book webshop 

  • When Technology Was Female: Histories of Construction and Deconstruction, 1917–1989

    2024

    • Editorial

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    The title
    The front cover reads
    Booklets of yellow and pink pages sit on top of white book jackets, where the title
    Several copies of the book
    A book is held open, showing a spread with yellow pages and four different images with descriptions. In the most visible them, a person uses a compass.
    Several copies of
    A book is held open, showing a spread with pink pages and four different images with descriptions. The photographs show two stills with the protagonists of Věra Chytilová's film

    wtwfhcd-overview.mp4 

    Four people sit around a low table. To their right, another person is behind a podium, towards which the others are looking. A slide with the tile of the book,
    Event room with several rows of chairs full of people. In front of them, four people side around a low table on stage. A slide with two photographs is being projected above them.

    book webshop 

  • Testimony Translation Project

    2023

    • Editorial

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

    Schematic representation of a tunnel and location of nuclear weapon. The length of the tunnel is marked as approximately 1000 meters.

    ttp03a-overview.mp4 

    Screenshot of several PDF files in a database.
    Screenshot of several PDF files in a database. The thumbnails show documents, some with redacted information.
    Screenshot of several PDF files in a database. The thumbnails show documents, some with redacted information, and handwritten letters or notes.
    Screenshot of a webpage titled
    Screenshot of a webpage titled
    Screenshot of a webpage titled
    Screenshot of a webpage titled

    ttp03b-solange-fernex-algerie-interviews-1992_part-3.mp4 

    Installation consisting of several A4 sheets attached to each other with metal rings. In this section, there is a document with redacted information and some handwritten notes below. The title reads

    solange-fernex-algerie-interviews-1992_part-2.pdf [pdf, 316.34 KB] 

    saliat-ali.pdf [pdf, 152.11 KB] 

    germaine-t.pdf [pdf, 1.65 MB] 

    maryse-m.pdf [pdf, 1.53 MB] 

    Testimony Database 

  • salimbayri.com

    2023

    • Editorial

    sbc05d.mp4 

    Website page, showing three photographs in beige tones, which depict several clay-toned figurines, furniture and indoor spaces. Under the photograph on the right, there is text in small black print.
    Art installation, consisting of a shop window where several clay-toned objects have been put on display.
    A person sits in front of a suspended desk with a laptop computer, which is close to the ceiling of an indoor space. Below, there are several objects laid on a table.
    Seen from a high angle, a large table occupies most of the room. A group of people stand around the table, observing the objects that have been laid on top.
    Partial screenshot of a webpage, showing some text and a photograph of a beige building, with someone holding up a mallet in front.
    A person sits at a table, staring at a laptop and adjusting the knobs on a sound deck.
    Notebook page, with sketches, notes and drawings.
    On the other side of a glass, an image is being projected in one of the walls of a gallery space. Above the image with a drawing of a face, text white reads:

    sbc00-overview.mp4 

    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.

    Salim Bayri artist website 

  • 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 

  • Black Revelry: In Honor of ‘The Sugar Shack’

    2021

    • Editorial

    Part of:Black Revelry

    Album cover. *Black Revelry: In Honor of 'The Sugar Shack'*, edited by Carter with contributions from Taylor Renée Aldridge; Samiya Bashir; La Marr Jurelle Bruce; Derrais Carter; DJ Lynnée Denise, William H. Mosley, III, Zoé Samudzi, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Melanie Stevens and Phillip B. Williams. Design by Karoline Świeżyński. Photo: Temra Pavlović, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Album interior. *Black Revelry: In Honor of 'The Sugar Shack'*, edited by Carter with contributions from Taylor Renée Aldridge; Samiya Bashir; La Marr Jurelle Bruce; Derrais Carter; DJ Lynnée Denise, William H. Mosley, III, Zoé Samudzi, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Melanie Stevens and Phillip B. Williams. Design by Karoline Świeżyński. Photo: Temra Pavlović, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.

    carter-cali-memory-intro-excerpt.mp3 

    Layout spread. Derrais Carter,
    S\*an D. Henry-Smith, *In the hours before First Service* (left) and DJ Lynée Denise,
    Insert materials. *Black Revelry: In Honor of 'The Sugar Shack'*, edited by Carter with contributions from Taylor Renée Aldridge; Samiya Bashir; La Marr Jurelle Bruce; Derrais Carter; DJ Lynnée Denise, William H. Mosley, III, Zoé Samudzi, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Melanie Stevens and Phillip B. Williams. Design by Karoline Świeżyński. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Event announcement. *Black Revelry Quiet Storm* radio marathon and book launch. *Black Revelry: In Honor of 'The Sugar Shack'*, edited by Carter with contributions from Taylor Renée Aldridge; Samiya Bashir; La Marr Jurelle Bruce; Derrais Carter; DJ Lynnée Denise, William H. Mosley, III, Zoé Samudzi, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Melanie Stevens and Phillip B. Williams. Design by Karoline Świeżyński.
    Installation view. Derrais Carter, *What We Do Language Can't Touch*, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, November 2021. Photo: Konstantin Guz, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    S\*an D. Henry-Smith (left) and Derrais Carter (right). Book launch. *Black Revelry: In Honor of 'The Sugar Shack'*, edited by Carter with contributions from Taylor Renée Aldridge; Samiya Bashir; La Marr Jurelle Bruce; Derrais Carter; DJ Lynnée Denise, William H. Mosley, III, Zoé Samudzi, S\*an D. Henry-Smith, Melanie Stevens and Phillip B. Williams. Design by Karoline Świeżyński. Photo: Konstantin Guz, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.

    book webshop 

    Late Night DJ playlist by DJ Lynée Denise 

    black poesis/radical composition 

  • 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 

  • In Terms of Performance

    2014 – 16

    • Editorial
    Homepage animation. *In Terms of Performance*, edited by Shannon Jackson and Paula Marincola (Arts Research Center at University of California, Berkeley, and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia). (link: https://www.intermsofperformance.site/ text: www.intermsofperformance.site target: _blank).
    Homepage index. *In Terms of Performance*, edited by Shannon Jackson and Paula Marincola (Arts Research Center at University of California, Berkeley, and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia). (link: https://www.intermsofperformance.site/ text: www.intermsofperformance.site target: _blank).
    Mark Russell,
    Installation view. Allison Smith, *Allison Smith: Rudiments of Fife & Drum*, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Photo: Chad Kleitsch, courtesy of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
    Andrea Fraser,
    Janine Antoni,
    Janine Antoni, *Yours Truly*, 2010. Ink on paper, 5 7/8 x 8 1/2”. ©Janine Antoni, courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
    Stefan Kaegi,
    In 1920, under the direction of Nikolai Evreinov, thousands of participants (including Vladimir Lenin and thousands of Red Guards) reenacted the storming of the tsar's Winter Palace three years earlier, a pivotal moment in the October Revolution. Sergey Eisenstein used footage from the event in his film *October: Ten Days that Shook the World* (1928).

    full online anthology