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

  • 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 

    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 

  • 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 

  • 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 

  • 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] 

  • 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] 

  • 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 

  • Performative Writing as Documentation

    2020 – 23

    • Workshop

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