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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)
  • Writing (14) x

The creative labor of translating research into texts that are meant to be read.

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).

  • 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 

  • 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 

  • 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 

  • 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 

  • 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 

  • 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] 

  • Notes from the Table: A Not-Yet Manifesto

    2022

    • Writing

    Part of:Zone Collective

    Notes from the Table. A Not-Yet Manifesto 

  • 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 

  • Film Distribution and 1968: Radical Aspirations

    2021

    • Writing

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

  • 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 

  • double review “Tiresias” and “Messianic Remains”

    2013

    • Writing

  • History As An Experience To Be Had

    2012

    • Writing