Megan Hoetger, PhD, Projects
Upcoming
“Active Archives. On Performance Curatorial Research and Historiographic Method” in The Routledge Companion to Performance Art, edited by Lucian O’Connor, et al. (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2025).
“Projections from the Archive. On Performances of Cinema, Its Archival Counterapproaches, and Performance Historiography,” in Relational Acts: Performance Practices and Media of Documentation, edited by Barbara Büscher, Franz Anton Cramer, and Ulrike Hanstein (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2025).
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 3 November 2025.
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Body + Motion. Mapping Movements from Early Photography to the Era of Video Art
2024
b-m04b.mp4
b-m04c.mp4
CCA Łaźnia website
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book talk “Armed by Design”
2024
book webshop
Interference Archive
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I don’t believe in revolution, but sometimes I get in the spirit
2024
Our Many Easts program description
full online text
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‘It Was the Way We Lived’: On Underground Cinema, Reproductive Labor, and Curating
2024
mhoetger_it-was-the-way-we-lived_octopus-notes-11-2024.pdf [pdf, 9.47 MB]
more info on XSCREEN
more info on Birgit Hein
Octopus Notes, No. 11
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screening “And still, it remains”
2024
Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity
LUX listing page
Framer Framed event listing
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Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara
2024
Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity
ct-overview.mp4
Book webshop
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radio show “Ditzcourse: Pleasure”
2024
transcript-ditzcourse-pleasure.pdf [pdf, 179.44 KB]
Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee full episode listing
giftsciencearchive.net
Sands Murray-Wassink artist website
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Episode #1: Decipher Me or I Shall Devour You
2024
Part of:Sonic Feminist Fabulations
sffepone02d.mp4
Break the Algorithm interview
Paula Montecinos Oliva artist website
Sonic Feminist Fabulations website
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Sonic Feminist Fabulations, episode #0
2024
Part of:Sonic Feminist Fabulations
sffepzero04b.mp4
Episode no. 0 listen-back with Radio WORM
Paula Montecinos Oliva artist website
Sonic Feminist Fabulations website
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The Partisan, the Dissident, and the “Postsocialist Contemporary”
2024
tptdtpsc00-overview.mp4
Full text online
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When Technology Was Female: Histories of Construction and Deconstruction, 1917–1989
2024
Part of:When Technology Was Female
wtwfhcd-overview.mp4
book webshop
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When Technology Was Female
2024
Part of:When Technology Was Female
wtwf-handout.pdf [pdf, 370 KB]
Goethe-Institut event listing
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Studies in Character Development
2024
Part of:Zone Collective
character-studies-preview.mp4
character-studies-reading-1.mp4
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book talk “Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto”
2023
book webshop
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Garden as Material, Map, Metaphor, State of Mind
2023
A Rising Flower Makes a Garden
The Garden as Material, Map, Metaphor, State of Mind, by Megan Hoetger
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Is Isolation a Form of Experience?
2023
iife03a-simon-e-van-saarloos.mp4
workshop-handout.pdf [pdf, 1.28 MB]
“Contagious & Queer” curatorial essay
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Performing Colonial Toxicity
2023 – 24
Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity
pct01f.mp4
pct-exhibition-booklet.pdf [pdf, 1.57 MB]
Framer Framed exhibition listing
Samia Henni website
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Testimony Translation Project
2023
Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity
ttp03a-overview.mp4
ttp03b-solange-fernex-algerie-interviews-1992_part-3.mp4
solange-fernex-algerie-interviews-1992_part-2.pdf [pdf, 316.34 KB]
saliat-ali.pdf [pdf, 152.11 KB]
germaine-t.pdf [pdf, 1.65 MB]
maryse-m.pdf [pdf, 1.53 MB]
Testimony Database
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salimbayri.com
2023
sbc05d.mp4
sbc00-overview.mp4
Salim Bayri artist website
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screening “ROHFILM” (in memory of Birgit Hein)
2023
more info on Birgit Hein
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ZWARTE IBIS
2023 – 24
musoke-nalwoga-zwarte-ibis-already-and-forthcoming.pdf [pdf, 893.84 KB]
ZWARTE IBIS in the making
Black Speaks Back homepage
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Active Archives: Performing Social Realities in Archival Contexts
2022
House of World Cultures event listing
full program recording
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review “Black Joy/White Fragility”
2022
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
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book talk “Take ‘Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting”
2022
book webshop
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Film Distribution and 1968: Radical Aspirations
2022
hoetger_films-distribution-and-1968.pdf [pdf, 37.89 KB]
Discourse homepage
Celluloid Revolt book webshop
1968 and Global Cinema book webshop
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giftsciencearchive.net
2022
Part of:Gift Science Archive
gsa.net-comm-animation.mp4
https://www.giftsciencearchive.net
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Honouring Sands’s Horsepower
2022
Part of:Gift Science Archive
hshp-scroll-through.mp4
hoetger_honouring-sands-s-horsepower.pdf [pdf, 1.56 MB]
giftsciencearchive.net/about
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Learning from ‘Gift Science Archive’
2022
hoetger_learning-from-gift-science-archive.pdf [pdf, 114.62 KB]
nGbK event series listing
full PDF for download
nGbK book webshop
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Performances of Cinema and Other Infrastructural Musings
2022
Oude Kerk open archive
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Reassembling East German Nightlife: Scores for Curating from Elusive Archives
2022
hoetger-kong_reassembling-east-german-nightlife.pdf [pdf, 2.49 MB]
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Collectivities Otherwise: Party Lines, Counterpropositions, and (Post)Socialist Spaces
2022
Part of:When Technology Was Female
spui25 event listing
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Socialist Collectivity and the Aesthetics of (Dys)functionality
2022
Part of:When Technology Was Female
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’
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Collective Annotation Sessions
2022 – ongoing
Part of:Zone Collective
“Şimdicilik”ten şimdinin siyasetine doğru
Beyoğlu’nun yeni failleri
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Notes from the Table. A Not-Yet Manifesto
2022
Part of:Zone Collective
Notes from the Table. A Not-Yet Manifesto
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Zoning Play Complex
2022
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]
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Archiving Club Cultures from Late Socialism through the Era of ‘Social Distancing’
2021 – 22
archiving-club-cultures_-curriculum-plan.pdf [pdf, 55.5 KB]
Susanne Altmann interview
Scoring Elusive Archives
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Art/Obscenity/Underground Cinema in West Germany, 1968–1973: Circulating through the Debates
2021
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
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Black Revelry: In Honor of ‘The Sugar Shack’
2021
Part of:Black Revelry
carter-cali-memory-intro-excerpt.mp3
book webshop
Late Night DJ playlist by DJ Lynée Denise
black poesis/radical composition
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COLLABORATION. How can we work together?
2021
Part of:Gift Science Archive
Sands Murray-Wassink artist website
Rijksakademie Open Archive
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In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the ‘Gift Science Archive’, 1993–present
2021
Part of:Gift Science Archive
in-good-company-bulletin.pdf [pdf, 759.32 KB]
Sands Murray-Wassink artist website
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Without You I’m Nothing (Blue)
2021
Part of:Gift Science Archive
without-you-i-m-nothing-blue-list-of-works.pdf [pdf, 202.53 KB]
Sands Murray-Wassink artist website
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How We Behave / An Archive of Radical Practice
2021 – 23
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
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Lively Archives: Activating Performance Archives and the Performativity of Archival Methods
2021
lively-archives-slides.pdf [pdf, 7.5 MB]
cultures-d-avenir-full-program.pdf [pdf, 915.99 KB]
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The Actress
2021 – 23
teaser-the-actress-04.mp4
teaser-the-actress-03.mp4
ta-animation.mp4
gkv_aimee_zito_lema_becket_mwn_hand-out_a4_p_file_en.pdf [pdf, 1.96 MB]
the-actresses_curatorial-note.pdf [pdf, 66.37 KB]
the-actress_becket-essay_aimee-notations.pdf [pdf, 2.27 MB]
the-actress_interview-with-camila_becket-notations.pdf [pdf, 3.63 MB]
Grazer Kunstverein
The Actress(es) studio page
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Cinema for Houseboats
2021
Part of:Zone Collective
more info on Vlado Kristl
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Drawing the Archive
2021
Part of:Zone Collective
dta-session-2_excerpt01.mp4
dta-session-2_excerpt02.mp4
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Shadow Zones: Experimental Cinema History in Yugoslavia; or, a Cinema and a History Made and Unmade by Maps
2021
Part of:Zone Collective
sz-walkthrough.mp4
shadow-zones-handout.pdf [pdf, 230.02 KB]
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Black Revelry Quiet Storm
2020 – 21
Part of:Black Revelry
Recommended reading: Sent
dublab guest session: Gathering
dublab guest session: Dispersal
dublab guest session: Frequency
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RELATIONSHIPS. Feminist Legacies, Queer Intimacies
2020 – 21
Part of:Gift Science Archive
rflqi03a.mp4
rflqi03b.mp4
Sands Murray-Wassink artist website
Aimar and Sands (Sands Music for us = Black & White) 2020
RELATIONSHIPS - full epistolary exchange
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VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?
2020
Part of:Gift Science Archive
Sands Murray-Wassink artist website
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Performative Writing as Documentation
2020 – 23
sndo-sample-syllabus-dec-2021.pdf [pdf, 131.56 KB]
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EXPRMNTL Nights
2019
EXPRMNTL documentary film homepage
more info on EXPRMNTL
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A Sentimental Punk: An Incomplete Kurt Kren Film Retrospective, 1956-1996
2018
The Lab event documentation
Canyon Cinema event listing
Kurt Kren filmmaker website
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Falter, Stumble, Plunge: Kurt Kren’s Structures
2018
legrice_kurt-kren.pdf [pdf, 7.86 MB]
tscherkassky_lord-of-the-frames-kurt-kren.pdf [pdf, 92.01 KB]
Full text online
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Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa
2018
BAMPFA event listing
Tomonari Nishikawa filmmaker website
Kurt Kren filmmaker website
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In Terms of Performance
2014 – 16
full online anthology
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double review “Tiresias” and “Incorruptible Flesh”
2013
hoetger-athey-psi-review_perf-research-_fall2014.pdf [pdf, 523.55 KB]
hoetger-cassils-psi-review_perf-research-fall2014.pdf [pdf, 226.4 KB]
Performance Research issue listing
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History As An Experience To Be Had
2012
hoetger-history-as-an-experience-to-be-had.pdf [pdf, 7.79 MB]
X-TRA issue listing
full text online