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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)
  • Production (5)
  • Workshop (8)
  • Writing (14)
  • When Technology Was Female (4) x

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: 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

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    wtwf-handout.pdf [pdf, 370 KB] 

    Goethe-Institut event listing 

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

    2022

    • Conversational

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    Nearly full lecture room. On stage, a person stands behind a podium. There is an image being projected on stage and in another screen, which is closer to the middle of the room. The image shows a feminine-presenting person with short hair in black-and-white.
    Nearly full lecture room. On stage, a person stands behind a podium. There is slide being projected behind them. It has a text, a painting and a photograph in black-and-white.
    A person stands behind a podium on stage. They looks towards another person, who is off-stage to their right. The person off-stage looks as if they are speaking.
    Four people sit on stage, around a low round table. A slide with a photograph and a short text is being projected behind them. The person to the left holds a microphone.
    Five people sit on stage, around a low round table. The person to the right holds a microphone and is gesturing with their left hand.
    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.

    spui25 event listing 

  • 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.
    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