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  • Megan Hoetger, PhD
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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Projects

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

An archive of projects, collaborations, and engagements organized according to typologies of labor performed.

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.

  • When Technology Was Female: Histories of Construction and Deconstruction, 1917–1989

    2024

    • Editorial

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    The title
    The front cover reads
    Booklets of yellow and pink pages sit on top of white book jackets, where the title
    Several copies of the book
    A book is held open, showing a spread with yellow pages and four different images with descriptions. In the most visible them, a person uses a compass.
    Several copies of
    A book is held open, showing a spread with pink pages and four different images with descriptions. The photographs show two stills with the protagonists of Věra Chytilová's film

    wtwfhcd-overview.mp4 

    Four people sit around a low table. To their right, another person is behind a podium, towards which the others are looking. A slide with the tile of the book,
    Event room with several rows of chairs full of people. In front of them, four people side around a low table on stage. A slide with two photographs is being projected above them.

    book webshop 

  • When Technology Was Female

    2024

    • Curatorial

    Part of:When Technology Was Female

    A person looks towards a pull down projector, where a film is being projected. The image shows a person in a full orange suit and hat.
    Three people watch a film being projected on a wall of a hallway space. Two of them are sitting down, while the other stands up at the bottom of the stairs.
    A film is being projected on a screen. The image shows a head shot of a masculine-presenting person with a moustache. The image also appears partly reflected on a mirror to the left.
    Dark space. Only the projection of a still from Věra Chytilová's film
    Dark space. Only the projection of a film is visible. The image shows a feminine-presenting person touching the head of another person.
    This is
    This is
    This is
    This is

    wtwf-handout.pdf [pdf, 370 KB] 

    Goethe-Institut event listing 

  • 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.
    Website section showing three images with descriptions.
    Website section showing some text and two images, which appear inside blue blocks.
    Website section showing eighteen photographs, mostly in black-and-white, inside blue blocks.
    Website section showing two images and a text. Part of the text and the two images appear inside a green block.
    Website section showing nineteen photographs, which appear inside green blocks.
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep01 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep01 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep02 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep02 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep03 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud
    Listen to Altmann Talk Me Through-ep03 by Mhoetger #np on #SoundCloud

    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’