Megan Hoetger, PhD, Black Revelry
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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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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The Partisan, the Dissident, and the “Postsocialist Contemporary”
2024
tptdtpsc00-overview.mp4
Full text online
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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