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  • Conversational (8)
  • Curatorial (9)
  • Editorial (8)
  • Exhibitionary (4)
  • Presentational (3)
  • Production (3)
  • Workshop (9)
  • Writing (12)

Upcoming

  • book talk “Armed by Design”

    2024

    • Conversational

  • Expanded Communication and Its Discontents

    2024

    • Workshop

  • “It Was The Way We Lived”: On Underground Cinema, Reproductive Labor, and Curating

    2024

    • Writing

    Octopus Notes, No. 11 

  • screening “And still, it remains”

    2024

    • Conversational

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

    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 

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

    2024

    • Editorial

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

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

    2024

    • Editorial

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    book webshop 

  • When Technology Was Female

    2024

    • Curatorial

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    This is
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    wtwf-handout.pdf [pdf, 370 KB] 

    Goethe-Institut event listing 

  • Studies in Character Development

    2024

    • Workshop

    Part of:Zone Collective

    character-studies-preview.mp4 

    character-studies-reading-1.mp4 

  • ZWARTE IBIS

    2024

    • Production
    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.
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    ZWARTE IBIS in the making 

    Black Speaks Back homepage 

  • book talk “Against Ageism”

    2023

    • Conversational

  • closing roundtable “SUMUS – We Are One”

    2023

    • Conversational

  • Garden as Material, Map, Metaphor, State of Mind

    2023

    • Writing

    A Rising Flower Makes a Garden 

    The Garden as Material, Map, Metaphor, State of Mind, by Megan Hoetger 

  • Is Isolation a Form of Experience?

    2023

    • Workshop

    iife03a-simon-e-van-saarloos.mp4 

    workshop-handout.pdf [pdf, 1.28 MB] 

    “Contagious & Queer” curatorial essay 

  • Performing Colonial Toxicity

    2023 – 24

    • Exhibitionary

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

    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.
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    pct-exhibition-booklet.pdf [pdf, 1.57 MB] 

    Framer Framed exhibition listing 

    Samia Henni website 

  • Testimony Translation Project

    2023

    • Editorial

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

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

    2023

    • Presentational

  • salimbayri.com

    2023

    • Editorial

  • Active Archives: Performing Social Realities in Archival Contexts

    2022

    • Curatorial

  • Review “Black Joy/White Fragility”

    2022

    • Writing
    Installation view of Joy Mariama Smith, *Black Joy/White Fragility* (2021), Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam). Photo by Franz Mueller Schmidt, all rights reserved by Hartwig Art Foundation.

    mhoetger_black-joy-white-fragility-review-joy-mariama-smith-_theater-journal-f2022.pdf [pdf, 13.52 MB] 

    Theatre Journal, Volume 74, Number 3, September 2022 

    Black Joy/White Fragility 

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

    2022

    • Conversational

  • giftsciencearchive.net

    2022

    • Editorial

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    https://www.giftsciencearchive.net 

  • Honouring Sands Horsepower

    2022

    • Writing

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

  • Learning from “Gift Science Archive”

    2022

    • Writing

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    hoetger_learning-from-_gift-science-archive.pdf [pdf, 2.29 MB] 

  • Performances of Cinema and Other Infrastructural Musings

    2022

    • Presentational

  • Reassembling East German Nightlife: Scores for Curating from Elusive Archives

    2022

    • Writing
    Cover of *Archives on Show*.
    Table of contents for *Archives on Show*.
    First page of

    hoetger-kong_reassembling-east-german-nightlife.pdf [pdf, 2.49 MB] 

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

    2022

    • Conversational

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

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    spui25 event listing 

  • Socialist Collectivity and the Aesthetics of (Dys)functionality

    2022

    • Workshop

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    Talk Me Through... is a five-episode podcast series that take listeners inside works of art that have been key in the development of Susanne Altmann’s research project 'When Technology Was Female'. In the first episode Altmann sat down with Megan Hoetger to discuss two works of art: an early black and white self-portrait by photographer Evelyn Richter from 1952 and a colorful portrait of working women by painter Doris Ziegler from 1975. Sound editing by Kirila Cvetkovska.
    Talk Me Through... is a five-episode podcast series that take listeners inside works of art that have been key in the development of Susanne Altmann’s research project 'When Technology Was Female'. In the first episode Altmann sat down with Megan Hoetger to discuss two works of art: an early black and white self-portrait by photographer Evelyn Richter from 1952 and a colorful portrait of working women by painter Doris Ziegler from 1975. Sound editing by Kirila Cvetkovska.
    Talk Me Through... is a five-episode podcast series that take listeners inside works of art that have been key in the development of Susanne Altmann’s research project 'When Technology Was Female'. Episode two draws from the archive, sharing an excerpt from the extensive walkthrough that Altmann did with Hoetger in December 2021 of the ‘Pants Wear Skirts’ exhibition at the nGbK Berlin. In the clip, Altmann discusses two of the collective films made by the Erfurt Women Artists’ Group: ‘Frauenträume’ (1986) and ‘Komik Komisch’ (1988). Sound editing by Kirila Cvetkovska. Visit www.ificantdance.studio to explore more material from Susanne Altmann's project.
    Talk Me Through... is a five-episode podcast series that take listeners inside works of art that have been key in the development of Susanne Altmann’s research project 'When Technology Was Female'. Episode two draws from the archive, sharing an excerpt from the extensive walkthrough that Altmann did with Hoetger in December 2021 of the ‘Pants Wear Skirts’ exhibition at the nGbK Berlin. In the clip, Altmann discusses two of the collective films made by the Erfurt Women Artists’ Group: ‘Frauenträume’ (1986) and ‘Komik Komisch’ (1988). Sound editing by Kirila Cvetkovska. Visit www.ificantdance.studio to explore more material from Susanne Altmann's project.

    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

    “Şimdicilik”ten şimdinin siyasetine doğru 

    Beyoğlu’nun yeni failleri 

  • Notes from the Table: A Not-Yet Manifesto

    2022

    • Writing

    Part of:Zone Collective

    Notes from the Table. A Not-Yet Manifesto 

  • Zoning Play Complex

    2022

    • Workshop

    Part of:Zone Collective

    zpc-briefing.pdf [pdf, 71.39 KB] 

    zpc-menu.pdf [pdf, 50.88 KB] 

    zpc-placemat-position1.pdf [pdf, 22.07 KB] 

  • Art/Obscenity/Underground Cinema in West Germany, 1968–1973: Circulating Through the Debates

    2021

    • Writing

    art_obscentiy-color-plate.pdf [pdf, 1.26 MB] 

    hoetger_art_obscenity_underground-cinema-in-west-germany-1968-72.pdf [pdf, 4.02 MB] 

    In and Out of View 

  • Black Revelry: In Honor of “The Sugar Shack”

    2021

    • Editorial

    Part of:Black Revelry

    carter-cali-memory-intro-excerpt.mp3 

    book webshop 

    Late Night DJ playlist by DJ Lynée Denise 

    black poesis/radical composition 

  • Film Distribution and 1968: Radical Aspirations

    2021

    • Writing

    hoetger_films-distribution-and-1968.pdf [pdf, 37.89 KB] 

  • COLLABORATION. How can we work together?

    2021

    • Conversational

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the “Gift Science Archive”, 1993–present

    2021

    • Exhibitionary

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    This is
    This is

    in-good-company-bulletin.pdf [pdf, 759.32 KB] 

    Sands Murray-Wassink website 

  • Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)

    2021

    • Exhibitionary

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    without-you-i-m-nothing-blue-list-of-works.pdf [pdf, 202.53 KB] 

    Sands Murray-Wassink website 

  • How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice

    2021 – 23

    • Curatorial

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

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

    How We Behave studio project 

    Grant Watson website 

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

    2021

    • Workshop

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

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

  • Mythologies/Methdologies: Approaching Feminist Collectivities of the 1970s and 1980s

    2021

    • Curatorial

  • The Actress

    2021 – 23

    • Production

    teaser-the-actress-04.mp4 

    teaser-the-actress-03.mp4 

    the-actresses_curatorial-note.pdf [pdf, 66.37 KB] 

    Grazer Kunstverein  

    The Actresses studio page 

  • Cinema for Houseboats

    2021

    • Curatorial

    Part of:Zone Collective

    more info on Vlado Kristl 

  • Drawing the Archive

    2021

    • Presentational

    Part of:Zone Collective

    dta-session-2_excerpt01.mp4 

    dta-session-2_excerpt02.mp4 

  • Shadow Zones: A History of Experimental Cinema in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps

    2021

    • Exhibitionary

    Part of:Zone Collective

    sz-walkthrough.mp4 

    shadow-zones-handout.pdf [pdf, 230.02 KB] 

  • Archiving Club Cultures from Late Socialism through the Era of “Social Distancing”

    2020 – 21

    • Workshop

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

    Susanne Altmann interview 

    Scoring Elusive Archives 

  • Black Revelry Quiet Storm

    2020 – 21

    • Production

    Part of:Black Revelry

    online radio dedicated to the arts visit our website for an overview of shows and an indexed archive
    online radio dedicated to the arts visit our website for an overview of shows and an indexed archive

    Recommended reading: Sent 

    dublab guest session: Gathering 

    dublab guest session: Dispersal 

    dublab guest session: Frequency 

  • RELATIONSHIPS. Feminist Legacies, Queer Intimacies

    2020 – 21

    • Editorial

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    rflqi03a.mp4 

    rflqi03b.mp4 

    RELATIONSHIPS - full epistolary exchange 

    Aimar and Sands (Sands Music for us = Black & White) 2020 

  • VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?

    2020

    • Conversational

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

  • Performative Writing as Documentation

    2020 – 23

    • Workshop

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

  • EXPRMNTL Nights

    2019

    • Curatorial

  • A Sentimental Punk: A Kurt Kren Retrospective

    2018

    • Curatorial

  • Falter, Stumble, Fall

    2018

    • Writing

  • Underground Internationals: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa

    2018

    • Curatorial

  • In Terms of Performance

    2016

    • Editorial

  • double review “Tiresias” and “Messianic Remains”

    2013

    • Writing

  • West Coast Queer New Wave

    2013 – 14

    • Curatorial

  • History As An Experience To Be Had

    2012

    • Writing