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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) x
  • Production (5)
  • Workshop (8)
  • Writing (14)

The creative labor of translating research into texts that are meant to be heard.

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).

  • Body + Motion. Mapping Movements from Early Photography to the Era of Video Art

    2024

    • Presentational
    Black and white photograph of Joan Jonas' face. At the bottom, the photograph is covered with a area in blue. The event details, in Polish, appear in white on top of blue.
    A person's head appears in front of a powerpoint slide projection. The white slide asks two questions about how the usage of photography and video throughout the twentieth century, which appear in black.
    Several people, sitting on chairs, face the front of the room, where a person is delivering a presentation. Behind the presenter, a slide is being projected onto a screen.
    A black-and-white photograph shows a male presenting person chopping wood with a hammer. There are white dotted lines on the photograph, which collide in the person's hand.
    A male presenting person appears running in 20 frames. In 10 of these, which occupy the majority of the image, the side perspective is shown. In the remaining 10, the pictures have been taken from a frontal perspective.
    Several people, sitting on chairs, face the front of the room, where a person is delivering a presentation. Behind the presenter, a slide with two photographs is being projected onto a screen.
    Artistic installation made up of two small TVs connected to each other by a see-through plastic-like material.
    Black-and-white photograph showing Joan Jonas' face and half of her hand. The image has been rotated horizontally.

    b-m04b.mp4 

    A person sits behind a desk and a computer, delivering a presentation. Behind them, a slide is being projected.

    b-m04c.mp4 

    CCA Łaźnia website 

  • screening “ROHFILM” (in memory of Birgit Hein)

    2023

    • Presentational
    On top of a white background, with lateral yellow frames, the event description for
    Pink and green poster with a pink rectangle at the centre. A table in green appears inside the rectangle, as well as the event title
    Event description, which appears against a pink background, and event dates, which appear against a green background. The institutional logos appear at the bottom.
    A film still appears in a grey laptop screen. The black and white still reads
    The word APEGA appears inverted and flipped vertically.
    German newspaper page, showing different articles with black-and-white photos.
    Section of a poster. It shows a black and while photograph with two people dressed in black, standing against a white background. On top of the photo, in red, there is a drawing of a clown and some handwritten notes. The event name appears above the photo.
    Black-and-white catalog cover.
    This is
    This is

    more info on Birgit Hein 

  • Performances of Cinema and Other Infrastructural Musings

    2022

    • Presentational
    Black text on white background. The title
    Inside a church with stained glass windows, a person stands in one of the aisles, with some text being projected behind them. Three rows of chairs, broken into two sections, are nearly full. The people look towards the presenter. In an aisle in between the chairs, there is a table with a projector, facing the presenter.
    A large white slide with black text that reads
    In a blurry image, four people lie down in two levels of sofa-like seating. The face of a fifth person is visible on the bottom left corner.
    Light streaks on top of black background.
    Two people sit behind a projection booth, seemingly controlling the projector. In the background, people stand up on different levels, looking in the direction the projector is facing.
    A person sits at a table, with an open laptop. They are holding a microphone to their mouth. Behind them, a large slide is being projected on the wall. The slide reads
    Two people sit on wooden chairs, facing an audience. Another person, stands next to a member of the audience, who is holding a microphone and gesturing with their hand.
    In a church, several people stand around a wooden table, with books on top. They are either holding books and paper materials, or looking at them. Behind them, a group of people is spread around the church.

    Oude Kerk open archive 

  • 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