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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Projects

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

The pedagogical labor of creating contexts and making spaces for learning-by-doing.

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 

  • Is Isolation a Form of Experience?

    2023

    • Workshop
    A group of people sit cross-legged on the floor. They are facing another person, who is on the spotlight. Behind them, a webpage is being projected on a large screen.
    A person sits on their heels in front of several art supplies. They face the curtains, to the back of the space.
    A person paints a sheet of paper on the floor. Around them, there are several other drawings. A group of people sit crossed-legged around the painter and the drawings, watching.
    A large projected image shows a website page with an image and some text. The image shows a torso with the words

    iife03a-simon-e-van-saarloos.mp4 

    Two hands, wearing white gloves, hold a large white sheet of paper, which reads
    Four people pose behind several colourful sheets of paper with drawings, which are arranged in a circle on the floor. In the middle of the drawings, there is a pillow.

    workshop-handout.pdf [pdf, 1.28 MB] 

    “Contagious & Queer” curatorial essay 

  • Socialist Collectivity and the Aesthetics of (Dys)functionality

    2022

    • Workshop

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    In a university room, four people sit around tables set up in a U shape. At the front, a person is standing up or slightly resting against a table. A slide with two black and white photographs is being projected behind them.
    A laptop screen is partially visible, with several photo files open on the desktop. Behind it, five people sit around tables in a university room.
    Two text print outs have been set on a table. A thick yellow highlighter lays on top. In the background, five other people sit around other tables, looking in the same direction.
    Open laptop computer, showing a desktop with several open image files. Two text printouts are laying next to the computer.
    Website section showing three images with descriptions.
    Website section showing some text and two images, which appear inside blue blocks.
    Website section showing eighteen photographs, mostly in black-and-white, inside blue blocks.
    Website section showing two images and a text. Part of the text and the two images appear inside a green block.
    Website section showing nineteen photographs, which appear inside green blocks.
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep01 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep01 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep02 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep02 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep03 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep03 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud

    makarenko_his-life-and-work.pdf [pdf, 12.65 MB] 

    popper_platos-political-programme-v-vi.pdf [pdf, 7.88 MB] 

    lutz-gentsch-passages.pdf [pdf, 115.43 KB] 

    Three Seminars from ‘When Technology Was Female’ 

  • 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 

  • 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] 

  • Archiving Club Cultures from Late Socialism through the Era of ‘Social Distancing’

    2021 – 22

    • Workshop
    Workshop title page. The Academy course booklet, 2021.
    View of Kosmos cinema, Berlin, 2021. Opened to the public in 1962, Kosmos was one of the most modern film theatres in the GDR, serving as an important prestige project of the socialist state. Photo: Laura Fiorio.
    Along the sidewalk in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, 2021. The Gethsemanekirche – a central meeting point in the 1980s for opponents of the East German regime, and a crucial site of the demonstrations of the “Peaceful Revolution” in the autumn of 1989 that resulted in the fall of the Berlin Wall. Photo: Laura Fiorio.
    Inside the courtyard of the Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, 2021. The Museum in der Kulturbrauerei focuses exclusively on the history of former East Germany and features the permanent exhibition (link: https://www.hdg.de/en/museum-in-der-kulturbrauerei/exhibitions/everyday-life-in-the-gdr text:
    Exhibition installation view. *Hosen haben Röcke an. Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt 1984-1994* [*(link: https://archiv.ngbk.de/en/projekte/hosen-haben-rocke-kunstlerinnengruppe-erfurt-1984-1994/ text: Pants Wear Skirts: Erfurt Women Artists' Group, 1984-1994 target: _blank)*], neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin, 27 November 2021 - 30 January 2022. Photo: Ruppert Bohle.
    Visit to the (link: https://www.jugendkulturen.de/ text: Archiv der Jugendkulturen target: _blank)[Archive of Youth Cultures], Berlin, 2022. An introduction hosted by workshop participant Daniel Schneider to the extensive collection of zines, leaflets, posters, pins and other printed matter materials from across punk, hip hop, techno genres. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Detail. Pablo Santacana López and Daniel Schneider, *Mapping disco comradeship in East Berlin: which places, whose voices, what traces?*, 2021.
    Screenshot. Aikaterini Gegisian, *Dust Covers have a Score*, 2021.
    Screenshot. Sabine Marie, *Heard and Unheard*, 2021.
    Detail. Sterre Barentsen, *A Conversation about Trees in East Berlin*, 2021.

    archiving-club-cultures_-curriculum-plan.pdf [pdf, 55.5 KB] 

    Susanne Altmann interview 

    Scoring Elusive Archives 

  • Lively Archives: Activating Performance Archives and the Performativity of Archival Methods

    2021

    • Workshop
    Workshop documentation. Megan Hoetger with Anik Fournier, *Lively Archives: Activating Performance Archives and the Performativity of Archival Methods*, Centre Pompidou, Paris, November 2021.
    Workshop documentation. Megan Hoetger with Anik Fournier, *Lively Archives: Activating Performance Archives and the Performativity of Archival Methods*, Centre Pompidou, Paris, November 2021.
    Workshop documentation. Megan Hoetger with Anik Fournier, *Lively Archives: Activating Performance Archives and the Performativity of Archival Methods*, Centre Pompidou, Paris, November 2021.

    lively-archives-slides.pdf [pdf, 7.5 MB] 

    cultures-d-avenir-full-program.pdf [pdf, 915.99 KB] 

  • Performative Writing as Documentation

    2020 – 23

    • Workshop
    Students watch
    Students watch a film installation at *All About Theatre About Film* by Ivo van Hove and Jan Versweyveld. EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, 2021.
    Students attend a lecture within the frame of *Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC)* by Jonas Staal and Radha D'Souza. Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2021.
    Students watch a film installation in the exhibition *Mountains and Molehills* by Fiona Tan. EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, 2022.
    Student sits in an installation in the exhibition *For those who have no time to play* by Gluklya. Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2022.
    Students sit inside the exhibition *Feed me. Cheat me. Eat me.* by Janis Rafa. EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, 2023.
    Student sits inside the installation *Performing Colonial Toxicity* by Samia Henni. Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2023.
    Students gather around the screen in a listening session with ekphrastic texts from *Black Revelry: In Honor of 'The Sugar Shack'* by Derrais Carter (2021). If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam, 2023.
    Student watches projection in the exhibition *Bad Color Combos* by Yto Barrada. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2022.

    sndo-sample-syllabus-dec-2021.pdf [pdf, 131.56 KB]