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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Performing Colonial Toxicity

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

The improvisational labor of dialogue and exchange in a semi-guided forum.

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.

  • book talk “Armed by Design”

    2024

    • Conversational
    Square with pink background. The book cover of
    Two copies of the book
    Two people are having a discussion in front of a screen showing an image and some text.
    Two people are having a discussion in front of a screen showing an image and some text. One of them is looking at the screen and the other faces their laptop.
    Two people are having a discussion in front of a screen showing several images.
    A hand is holding a book open, showing two pages with several posters.
    Two people are having a discussion in front of a screen showing an image. One of them is holding a poster, which the other person looks towards.
    A book has been left open on a table. There is a photograph on the left page and a text on the right. A small image on the right hand page says
    A hand is holding a book open. On the left page, there is a text written in French. There is an image on the right page.

    book webshop 

    Interference Archive 

  • screening “And still, it remains”

    2024

    • Conversational

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

    A person, squatting down, faces an arid area, with hills at the distance. They appear to be wearing a light blue long garment and a turban.
    A worn-out sign, with the word Zone still visible, hangs on a building. In the background, there is a hill in an arid area. A subtitle reads:
    Hands, arms and torsos of a group of four people. They are sitting around a rock, where they are placing small rocks on top of a square one of them is drawing.
    Arid area with sandy hills. A subtitle reads:
    Three people sit around a low table having a discussion. Two of them hold microphones. There is a book propped up on the table.
    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.

    LUX listing page 

    Framer Framed event listing 

  • radio show “Ditzcourse: Pleasure”

    2024

    • Conversational
    Drawing of a horse, in purple. Around it, there is a heart in different colours and stars in purple. Above the horse,
    Two people are sitting across from each other at a table. They both have microphones in front of them. Behind them there is a bookshelf and a wall with posters, postcards and other decor.
    Ditzcourse is a series of conversations with painter, body artist, writer and perfume collector Sands Murray-Wassink. Ditzcourse as in: ditzy, as in silly, but still making discourse. Thinking out loud. Sharing information. Meaning making in relation. As informal as possible. The series is initiated by Radna Rumping who has been in conversation with Sands for some years. The gift that keeps on giving. How to edit? For each episode of Ditzcourse a guest is invited, and a keyword is suggested. Everyone brings a power object or reference to the table. This time Megan Hoetger is joining, and the keyword is Pleasure. Megan Hoetger is a performance researcher, curator, historian and hard femme. She grew up in California, and now lives in Amsterdam. Sands, Megan and Radna met at the end of 2019 to start a collaboration, commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, that became Gift Science Archive: a database which archives relations and nearly 2,500 studio objects from the art/life practice of Sands. Gift Science Archive is also, as Megan puts it, ‘a fierce feminist demand to centre the messiness of feelings and thoughts and sharing in our processes of meaning production, knowledge transmission and history-making’. They stayed in a continuous exchange. Now they meet at the home of Sands in Amsterdam, where he lives with his partner Robin and cat Duman. In this episode, recorded on May 23th 2024, Sands, Megan and Radna talk about the too personal, vulvic space, anal space, being a feminist killjoy, noticing, a bad behaviour boat, and the pleasure of interpersonal connection. A full transcript and list of references is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lw2Wpaa88laQ8p0eCpn9mIBShmcKe5Jv/view
    Ditzcourse is a series of conversations with painter, body artist, writer and perfume collector Sands Murray-Wassink. Ditzcourse as in: ditzy, as in silly, but still making discourse. Thinking out loud. Sharing information. Meaning making in relation. As informal as possible. The series is initiated by Radna Rumping who has been in conversation with Sands for some years. The gift that keeps on giving. How to edit? For each episode of Ditzcourse a guest is invited, and a keyword is suggested. Everyone brings a power object or reference to the table. This time Megan Hoetger is joining, and the keyword is Pleasure. Megan Hoetger is a performance researcher, curator, historian and hard femme. She grew up in California, and now lives in Amsterdam. Sands, Megan and Radna met at the end of 2019 to start a collaboration, commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, that became Gift Science Archive: a database which archives relations and nearly 2,500 studio objects from the art/life practice of Sands. Gift Science Archive is also, as Megan puts it, ‘a fierce feminist demand to centre the messiness of feelings and thoughts and sharing in our processes of meaning production, knowledge transmission and history-making’. They stayed in a continuous exchange. Now they meet at the home of Sands in Amsterdam, where he lives with his partner Robin and cat Duman. In this episode, recorded on May 23th 2024, Sands, Megan and Radna talk about the too personal, vulvic space, anal space, being a feminist killjoy, noticing, a bad behaviour boat, and the pleasure of interpersonal connection. A full transcript and list of references is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lw2Wpaa88laQ8p0eCpn9mIBShmcKe5Jv/view

    transcript-ditzcourse-pleasure.pdf [pdf, 179.44 KB] 

    Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee full episode listing 

    giftsciencearchive.net 

    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website 

  • book talk “Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto”

    2023

    • Conversational
    Grey book cover appears inside a white frame, with small squares with colour at the top. The title
    Two people sit in front of a group of people. The person on the right holds a sheet of paper and a microphone.
    Three people sit in front of a group of people. The name of several artists (Adrian Piper, Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel and Senga Nengudi) is being projected in black text above them. The person to the left is holding a microphone.
    A black and white slide, where the following names have been written: Adrian Piper, Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel and Senga Nengudi.
    Three people sit in front of a group of people. Above them, an image of several drawings stuck to a pink surface is being projected. The two people to the left look up to the image.
    Art installation consisting of several photo prints of anuses glued to a linen canvas, which has been propped against a white wall. A brown nylon textile with silver stars is draped on the right.
    Screenshot of an Instagram story announcing the launch of Against Ageism, in an event with the author in conversation with Sans Murray-Wassink and Megan Hoetger.

    book webshop 

  • book talk “Take ‘Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting”

    2022

    • Conversational
    On top of a pink background and with a blue bar at the bottom,
    In a small indoor space, a group of people either socialise or look at books.
    Seen from above, two people sit next to each other. The person on the left holds a microphone. The person on the right looks at them, while taking a sip from a drink. There are bookshelves behind them.
    Two people sit next to each other. The person on the left holds a microphone. The person on the right is laughing and looking at the other person. There are bookshelves behind them.
    Two people sit in front of a group of people. The person on the left holds a microphone. There are bookshelves behind them.
    Graphic announcement for
    Graphic announcement for

    book webshop 

  • 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 

  • COLLABORATION. How can we work together?

    2021

    • Conversational

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    Video player on top of a black background. There is an X on the top left corner of the page and two arrows in opposite directions on the right. Inside the video player, the visible still shows five people sitting around a L shape table. They each have a microphone in front of them.
    Two people sit at a table with microphones in front of them. There is an open laptop in between them. In the foreground, an open laptop is visible on someone's lap. The image on the laptop shows a close-up image of one of the people sitting at the table.
    Three people sit behind a table. They each have a microphone in front of them. The two people on the right look in the direction of the person on the left, who is looking back at them.
    On the left, two people are sitting behind a table with microphones in front of them. On the right, a person stands behind two tripods with cameras. To their left, a screen is mounted on a stand. There are large windows at the back of the room and a blue equipment box.
    This is
    This is

    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website 

    Rijksakademie Open Archive 

  • VALUE. What is trash? What is trashy but valuable?

    2020

    • Conversational

    Part of:Gift Science Archive

    Eight people sit in line. The person on the right is holding paper and looking down at it. The other people look in their direction. Behind them, there is a wall with drawings and hand-drawn posters. A group of people sits on the floor, facing the eight people who sit on chairs.
    Five people sit in line. Behind them, there is a wall with drawings and hand-drawn posters.
    Two people sit next to each other, facing each other. Behind them, there is a wall with drawings and hand-drawn posters.
    A few people sit in line. The three people in the middle are looking at each other and laughing. Behind them, there is a wall with drawings and hand-drawn posters. Two other people, whose heads are visible, are sitting on the floor in front of them.
    In an indoor space, there are three rectangular frames hanging next to each other, each with two photographs and some text in black. Right on top, there is a yellow triangular frame with three photographs. Below them, there is a low table with a projector, whose light shines towards the camera. One person sits to the left and three people to the right of the projector. The person on the left looks behind, towards the left, to a large white poster with black text, which hangs on the wall. In front of them, there are other people, whose upper bodies are partially visible.
    A few people sit in line. Two of them are leaning forward, supporting their elbows on their knees. They lean towards the people who are sitting on the floor, facing them. One of the people on the floor is gesturing with their hands. The other people look towards them.
    This is
    This is

    Sands Murray-Wassink artist website