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  • Megan Hoetger, PhD
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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Black Revelry

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

The improvisational labor of dialogue and exchange in a semi-guided forum.

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).

  • book talk “Armed by Design”

    2024

    • Conversational

  • 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.
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    LUX listing page 

    Framer Framed event listing 

  • 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 

  • book talk “Against Ageism”

    2023

    • Conversational

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

    2022

    • Conversational

  • 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 

  • COLLABORATION. How can we work together?

    2021

    • Conversational

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

  • 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.