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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Black Revelry

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

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
    Megan's head appears in front of the powerpoint slide projection. The slide asks two questions about how the usage of photography and video throughout the twentieth century.
    Several people, sitting on chairs, face the front of the room, where Megan is delivering a presentation. Behind her, a slide is being projected onto a screen.
    Several people, sitting on chairs, face the front of the room, where Megan is delivering a presentation. Behind her, a slide with two photographs is being projected onto a screen.

    b-m04b.mp4 

    Megan sits behind a desk and a computer, delivering a presentation. Behind her, a slide is being projected.

    b-m04c.mp4 

    CCA Łaźnia website 

  • book talk “Armed by Design”

    2024

    • Conversational

  • I don’t believe in revolution, but sometimes I get in the spirit

    2024

    • Writing

    Our Many Easts program description 

    full online text 

  • “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

    Megan Hoetger, Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah sit around a low table having a discussion. Megan and Arwa are holding microphones. There is a book propped up on the table.
    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

  • radio show “Ditzcourse”

    2024

    • Conversational
    Sands Murray-Wassink and Megan Hoetger are sitting across from each other at a table. They both have microphones in front of them. Behind them there is a bookshelf and a wall with posters, postcards and other decor.
    Ditzcourse is a series of conversations with painter, body artist, writer and perfume collector Sands Murray-Wassink. Ditzcourse as in: ditzy, as in silly, but still making discourse. Thinking out loud. Sharing information. Meaning making in relation. As informal as possible. The series is initiated by Radna Rumping who has been in conversation with Sands for some years. The gift that keeps on giving. How to edit? For each episode of Ditzcourse a guest is invited, and a keyword is suggested. Everyone brings a power object or reference to the table. This time Megan Hoetger is joining, and the keyword is Pleasure. Megan Hoetger is a performance researcher, curator, historian and hard femme. She grew up in California, and now lives in Amsterdam. Sands, Megan and Radna met at the end of 2019 to start a collaboration, commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, that became Gift Science Archive: a database which archives relations and nearly 2,500 studio objects from the art/life practice of Sands. Gift Science Archive is also, as Megan puts it, ‘a fierce feminist demand to centre the messiness of feelings and thoughts and sharing in our processes of meaning production, knowledge transmission and history-making’. They stayed in a continuous exchange. Now they meet at the home of Sands in Amsterdam, where he lives with his partner Robin and cat Duman. In this episode, recorded on May 23th 2024, Sands, Megan and Radna talk about the too personal, vulvic space, anal space, being a feminist killjoy, noticing, a bad behaviour boat, and the pleasure of interpersonal connection. A full transcript and list of references is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lw2Wpaa88laQ8p0eCpn9mIBShmcKe5Jv/view
    Ditzcourse is a series of conversations with painter, body artist, writer and perfume collector Sands Murray-Wassink. Ditzcourse as in: ditzy, as in silly, but still making discourse. Thinking out loud. Sharing information. Meaning making in relation. As informal as possible. The series is initiated by Radna Rumping who has been in conversation with Sands for some years. The gift that keeps on giving. How to edit? For each episode of Ditzcourse a guest is invited, and a keyword is suggested. Everyone brings a power object or reference to the table. This time Megan Hoetger is joining, and the keyword is Pleasure. Megan Hoetger is a performance researcher, curator, historian and hard femme. She grew up in California, and now lives in Amsterdam. Sands, Megan and Radna met at the end of 2019 to start a collaboration, commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, that became Gift Science Archive: a database which archives relations and nearly 2,500 studio objects from the art/life practice of Sands. Gift Science Archive is also, as Megan puts it, ‘a fierce feminist demand to centre the messiness of feelings and thoughts and sharing in our processes of meaning production, knowledge transmission and history-making’. They stayed in a continuous exchange. Now they meet at the home of Sands in Amsterdam, where he lives with his partner Robin and cat Duman. In this episode, recorded on May 23th 2024, Sands, Megan and Radna talk about the too personal, vulvic space, anal space, being a feminist killjoy, noticing, a bad behaviour boat, and the pleasure of interpersonal connection. A full transcript and list of references is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lw2Wpaa88laQ8p0eCpn9mIBShmcKe5Jv/view

    transcript-ditzcourse-pleasure.pdf [pdf, 179.44 KB] 

    Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee full episode listing 

    giftsciencearchive.net 

    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website 

  • Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0

    2024

    • Production

    Part of:Sonic Feminist Fabulations

    Arrangement of colourful sticky notes, stuck to a white surface. The legible ones read: Score (9min), earphones, Mobile Device, Somatic Exercise (Breathing & Walking).
    Detail of an arrangement of colourful sticky notes, stuck to a large white sheet of paper that is laid on the ground. On the left, there are some handwritten notes in orange. The legible sticky notes read: Cachorritos, In-situ Sounds, Live Electronics, Speakers Set-up. On the top left corner, part of a black cable can be seen on the ground.
    Decks and other sound equipment have been set in two low tables and on the ground. A person can be seen squatting next to the larger structure, using a laptop. Someone else is sat by the wall, with a laptop to the left and a deck to the right, which they are adjusting.
    In the backgroud, a person dressed in black is squatting in front of a sound deck and a computer, which they are using. They are holding a microphone to their mouth. At the front, a red coil spiral is stuck to the floor. A thin cable is attached to its center with purple table. Throughout the rest of the space, other sound equipment and colourful cables lay on the flor.
    Two people seem to be playing with a sound installation consisting of two coil spirals stuck to the floor. There are cables attached to both spirals. A booklet is open next to one of them. In the background, a person is laying on the floor. They have their elbows on a pillow and are reading a book or a magazine.
    A coil spiral has been stuck to a white floor with a transparent plastic. There are two cables attached to it, one to the centre and the other to the edge. A person can partially be seen sitting next to it. With their left hand they are holding a small yellow heptagon structure against the spiral. With their right hand, they are touching the spiral through the middle of the structure.

    sffepzero04b.mp4 

    Close-up of two coil spirals, stuck to the white ground with a transparent plastic. There are wires coming from each of these spirals, and another wire connecting them both. The arms and a foot of two people can be seen. One person holds a microphone to a magnet, that they have set on one of the spirals. The other person touches the centre of the other spiral.
    A group of people is sitting on the floor or on chairs. They are all facing the same direction, as if to watch a performance. At the front, two people are sitting close together. One of them points to something on the floor, and the other, holding a microphone to their mouth, seems to be reading.
    A person is lying supine on a large black cushion. They are wearing a grey sweater. Their hands are covering their ears and their eyes are closed.
    Three people are sitting or laying on black cushions on the floor, next to a white wall. They are sitting in different positions, but are all holding their hands to their ears.
    Cover of a publication, with a red and white spiral that fills up the whole cover, with the centre slightly to the right. In between the spiral, the title of the publication can be read on the left: Sonic Feminist Fabulation, Social, Somatic. At the bottom, the following sentence appears: Here and there .. now and then. Electric fluid stream.
    Two white pages of an open booklet. Both have text and a line illustration, in dark red. On the left page the title reads: Coil Speakers; Magnet, membrane, coil. Underneath, there is an illustration of the speaker and a text description.
    Round tarot card. In its outer edge, we can read 0 at at the top and Fool at the bottom. In the centre of the card there is an illustration that shows a person doing a hand stand next to a river. With their left foot, they are holding a brown stick with a golden eye attached. They are surrounded by a crocodile, a bald eagle, a tiger, red and white mushrooms and a white water lily. At the back, the sun is setting behind snow-covered peaks.

    Episode no. 0 listen-back with Radio WORM 

    Paula Montecinos Oliva artist website 

    Sonic Feminist Fabulations website 

  • Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #1: Decipher Me or I Shall Devour You

    2024

    • Production

    Part of:Sonic Feminist Fabulations

    A hand hovers over a small basket, possibly made from cotton or similar material. The basket is set on a dark table. The hand of someone sitting across rests on the table.
    A number of round tarot cards have been set with no apparent order on top of a dark table. Someone is holding a card with both hands, while the person sitting across from them appears to be touching or picking a card. Next to the cards, two sound decks are partially visible.
    Two hands, belonging to two people sitting across from each other, are touching the same tarot card. Around it, there are other cards.
    A screen on a stand shows a table filmed from above. The arms of two people, sitting across from each other, rest on the table. There is also a sheet of paper with handwritten notes and a stack of round tarot cards. The screen is set in a wood-panelled room with some wall decoration.
    Two people sit across from each other. In between them there is a table with drinks and paper materials. One of the people is taking a sip from a beer. At the back, there is a screen on a stand, showing a table filmed from above. In this image, someone rests their arms on the table, with their palms facing up. Someone is sitting across from them. There is a sheet of paper and a stack of round tarot cards.
    A person stands behind a DJ booth. They are adjusting one of the decks. Next to the decks there is a light box, which emits a bright white light.
    On top of a light box surface, there are two coil spirals and a small sound deck with knobs. A hand can be seen holding an object, which they've put on top of one of the spirals.
    A person stands in a dark DJ booth, adjusting the knobs on a DJ deck. To their right, a bright light shines upwards from a light box set next to the deck.

    sffepone02d.mp4 

    Poster for Sonic Feminist Fabulations: Episode 0.1 Decipher Me or I Shall Devour You. The date of the event (13.12.2024) appears underneath the title. Filling up the whole poster is a photo of sound equipment and a microphone set on the floor. On the top left corner, we can see the bottom half of a person squatting down. At the bottom of the poster, on top of the image, there are handwritten notes.
    Next to a sound deck, two people are looking through a newspaper and smiling. They are in an indoor space after dark, possibly a bar or a cafe.
    Round tarot card. On its outer edge, a 1 can be read at the top and the word

    Break the Algorithm interview 

    Paula Montecinos Oliva artist website 

    Sonic Feminist Fabulations website 

  • The Partisan, the Dissident, the Postsocialist Contemporary

    2024

    • Writing

    tptdtpsc00-overview.mp4 

    Detail of a thick piece of fabric to which small patches of other fabric have been attached. These patches have drawings or writing on them.
    Section of a piece of dark fabric with stitches in white, brown and yellow. These stitches appear in different shapes and form patterns.
    A large rectangular piece of fabric has been hung on the wall. There is some texture to it, created with stitching. At the bottom, one small object hangs from the fabric.
    Close up section of a large rectangular piece of fabric hung on the wall. There is some texture to it, created with stitching.

    Full text online 

  • 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
    This is
    This is
    This is

    wtwf-handout.pdf [pdf, 370 KB] 

    Goethe-Institut event listing 

  • Studies in Character Development

    2024

    • Workshop

    Part of:Zone Collective

    character-studies-preview.mp4 

    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Studies in Character Development: A Chronicle of Experiments*, KIOSK Rotterdam, October 2024. Photo: Karoline Świeżyński.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Studies in Character Development: A Chronicle of Experiments*, KIOSK Rotterdam, October 2024. Photo: Merve Bedir.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Studies in Character Development: A Chronicle of Experiments*, KIOSK Rotterdam, October 2024. Photo: Philippa
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Studies in Character Development: A Chronicle of Experiments*, KIOSK Rotterdam, October 2024. Photo: Philippa
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Studies in Character Development: A Chronicle of Experiments*, KIOSK Rotterdam, October 2024. Photo: Merve Bedir.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Studies in Character Development: A Chronicle of Experiments*, KIOSK Rotterdam, October 2024. Photo: Merve Bedir.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Studies in Character Development: A Chronicle of Experiments*, KIOSK Rotterdam, October 2024. Photo: Merve Bedir.
    Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), *Studies in Character Development: A Chronicle of Experiments*, KIOSK Rotterdam, October 2024. Photo: Philippa

    character-studies-reading-1.mp4 

  • ZWARTE IBIS

    2024

    • Production
    Several deck chairs face a large outdoor screen, onto which a film is being projected. On screen, a feminine-presenting person rests their face on a door frame.
    A film is being projected in a cinema room. On screen, someone is submerged up to their chest in the ocean. A subtitle reads:
    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.

    ZWARTE IBIS in the making 

    Black Speaks Back homepage 

  • book talk “Against Ageism”

    2023

    • Conversational

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

    2023

    • Writing
    Workspace with large windows. There is a desk, a shelf, a smaller round table and large sheets of paper or photographic print on the floor. On the wall, hang several photographic prints showing the same flower.
    In an exhibition space, a large photographic print with green foliage is suspended from the ceiling. To the left, a photographic print has been placed on top of a plant in a vase. To the front of the print, a long line of flower prints that stretches across the floor is partially visible. On the walls, there are more prints with images and text.
    In an exhibition space, a large photographic print with green foliage is suspended from the ceiling. To its sides, we can find a red chair (right) and a wooden table with some photographic material on top (left). To its front, a long line of flower prints stretches across the floor.
    Four white A4 sheets, with Dutch words handwritten in black ink, are stuck to a wall.
    A white A4 sheet is stuck to a wall.
    Ratu R. Saraswati sits in front of a large photographic print that hangs from the ceiling in the middle of a space. The print partially depicts green foliage. Ratu holds a piece of paper and is gesturing with her right hand. In front, a long line of flower prints stretches across the floor.

    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
    Sands Murray-Wassink sits on his heels in front of several art supplies. He faces the curtains, to the back of the space.

    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

    Lofty exhibition space with several large screens hanging from the ceiling. Samia Henni stands in front of one of the screens, pointing to the left. A group of people sitting in front, look in the direction Samia is pointing at.
    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.

    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

  • salimbayri.com

    2023

    • Editorial

    sbc05d.mp4 

    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 

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

    2023

    • Presentational
    This is
    This is

    more info on Birgit Hein 

  • 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-_theatre-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

    hoetger_learning-from-gift-science-archive.pdf [pdf, 114.62 KB] 

    nGbK event series listing 

    full PDF for download 

    nGbK book webshop 

  • 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

    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 

  • 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 

    Layout spread from Derrais Carter,
    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.

    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

    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Radna Rumping.
    Visitor documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive, 1993-present*, mistral, Amsterdam, March - May 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    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

    Install documentation. Sands Murray-Wassink, *Without You I'm Nothing (Blue*), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, June 2021. Photo: Frédérique Bergholtz.

    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-rolnik-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] 

  • The Actress

    2021 – 23

    • Production
    Installation view. Aimée Zito Lema and Becket MWN, *The Actress*, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, September - December 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Installation view. Aimée Zito Lema and Becket MWN, *The Actress*, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, September - December 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

    teaser-the-actress-04.mp4 

    teaser-the-actress-03.mp4 

    Installation view. Aimée Zito Lema and Becket MWN, *The Actress*, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, September - December 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.
    Installation view. Aimée Zito Lema and Becket MWN, *The Actress*, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, September - December 2021. Photo: Megan Hoetger.

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

    Grazer Kunstverein  

    The Actresses studio page 

  • Cinema for Houseboats

    2021

    • Curatorial

    Part of:Zone Collective

    *Cinema for Houseboats I: Vlado Kristl* public program (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. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    *Cinema for Houseboats I: Vlado Kristl* public program (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. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

    more info on Vlado Kristl 

  • 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.

    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

    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Post-screening discussion. *Cinema for Houseboats* public program film night (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. Photo: Aram Lee, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.
    Exhibition installation view. 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: Quenton Miller, courtesy of When Site Lost the Plot.

    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
    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.

    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

    *Black Revelry Quiet Storm* playlists, insert materials for *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.
    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

    Left to right: Vivian van Saaze, Sands Murray-Wassink, Radna Rumping, Megan Hoetger. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Left to right: Vivian van Saaze, Sands Murray-Wassink, Radna Rumping. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Sands Murray-Wassink (left) and Radna Rumping (right). Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Left to right: Vivian van Saaze, Sands Murray-Wassink, Radna Rumping, Megan Hoetger. Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.
    Sands Murray-Wassink with Megan Hoetger, Radna Rumping, and Vivian van Saaze, *Gift Science Archive Process Event #1: VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?*, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, March 2020. Photo: Silvia Ulloa Márquez, courtesy of If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam.

  • Performative Writing as Documentation

    2020 – 23

    • Workshop

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

  • EXPRMNTL Nights

    2019

    • Curatorial

  • A Sentimental Punk: An Incomplete Kurt Kren Film Retrospective, 1956-1996

    2018

    • Curatorial
    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.
    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.

    The Lab event documentation 

    Canyon Cinema event listing 

    Kurt Kren filmmaker website 

  • Falter, Stumble, Plunge: Kurt Kren’s Structures

    2018

    • Writing

    legrice_kurt-kren.pdf [pdf, 7.86 MB] 

    tscherkassky_lord-of-the-frames-kurt-kren.pdf [pdf, 92.01 KB] 

    Full text online 

  • Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa

    2018

    • Curatorial
    Into the Mass (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 6 min., double projection 16mm, silent, color, USA) The visual was originally captured through two Super 8 cameras, which were attached on the pedals of a bicycle, through my ride from Marin County to San Francisco. The time-lapse footage was optically printed onto 16mm film afterwards, and the double projection would show a new landscape of the photogenic city. The ride ended after joining Critical Mass, an event occurs the last Friday of every month in San Francisco.
    Into the Mass (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2007, 6 min., double projection 16mm, silent, color, USA) The visual was originally captured through two Super 8 cameras, which were attached on the pedals of a bicycle, through my ride from Marin County to San Francisco. The time-lapse footage was optically printed onto 16mm film afterwards, and the double projection would show a new landscape of the photogenic city. The ride ended after joining Critical Mass, an event occurs the last Friday of every month in San Francisco.
    I buried a 100-foot (about 30 meters) 35mm negative film under fallen leaves alongside a country road, which was about 25 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, for about 6 hours, from the sunset of June 24, 2014, to the sunrise of the following day. The night was beautiful with a starry sky, and numerous summer insects were singing loud. The area was once an evacuation zone, but now people live there after the removal of the contaminated soil. This film was exposed to the possible remaining of the radioactive materials. This project is made possible with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; administered by Wave Farm.
    I buried a 100-foot (about 30 meters) 35mm negative film under fallen leaves alongside a country road, which was about 25 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, for about 6 hours, from the sunset of June 24, 2014, to the sunrise of the following day. The night was beautiful with a starry sky, and numerous summer insects were singing loud. The area was once an evacuation zone, but now people live there after the removal of the contaminated soil. This film was exposed to the possible remaining of the radioactive materials. This project is made possible with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; administered by Wave Farm.

    BAMPFA event listing 

    Tomonari Nishikawa filmmaker website 

    Kurt Kren filmmaker website 

  • In Terms of Performance

    2016

    • Editorial

  • double review “Tiresias” and “Messianic Remains”

    2013

    • Writing

  • History As An Experience To Be Had

    2012

    • Writing