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  • Megan Hoetger, PhD
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Megan Hoetger, PhD, Zone Collective

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

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

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.

  • Body + Motion. Mapping Movements from Early Photography to the Era of Video Art

    2024

    • Presentational
    Black and white photograph of Joan Jonas' face. At the bottom, the photograph is covered with a area in blue. The event details, in Polish, appear in white on top of blue.
    A person's head appears in front of a powerpoint slide projection. The white slide asks two questions about how the usage of photography and video throughout the twentieth century, which appear in black.
    Several people, sitting on chairs, face the front of the room, where a person is delivering a presentation. Behind the presenter, a slide is being projected onto a screen.
    A black-and-white photograph shows a male presenting person chopping wood with a hammer. There are white dotted lines on the photograph, which collide in the person's hand.
    A male presenting person appears running in 20 frames. In 10 of these, which occupy the majority of the image, the side perspective is shown. In the remaining 10, the pictures have been taken from a frontal perspective.
    Several people, sitting on chairs, face the front of the room, where a person is delivering a presentation. Behind the presenter, a slide with two photographs is being projected onto a screen.
    Artistic installation made up of two small TVs connected to each other by a see-through plastic-like material.
    Black-and-white photograph showing Joan Jonas' face and half of her hand. The image has been rotated horizontally.

    b-m04b.mp4 

    A person sits behind a desk and a computer, delivering a presentation. Behind them, a slide is being projected.

    b-m04c.mp4 

    CCA Łaźnia website 

  • screening “ROHFILM” (in memory of Birgit Hein)

    2023

    • Presentational
    On top of a white background, with lateral yellow frames, the event description for
    Pink and green poster with a pink rectangle at the centre. A table in green appears inside the rectangle, as well as the event title
    Event description, which appears against a pink background, and event dates, which appear against a green background. The institutional logos appear at the bottom.
    A film still appears in a grey laptop screen. The black and white still reads
    The word APEGA appears inverted and flipped vertically.
    German newspaper page, showing different articles with black-and-white photos.
    Section of a poster. It shows a black and while photograph with two people dressed in black, standing against a white background. On top of the photo, in red, there is a drawing of a clown and some handwritten notes. The event name appears above the photo.
    Black-and-white catalog cover.
    This is
    This is

    more info on Birgit Hein 

  • Performances of Cinema and Other Infrastructural Musings

    2022

    • Presentational
    Black text on white background. The title
    Inside a church with stained glass windows, a person stands in one of the aisles, with some text being projected behind them. Three rows of chairs, broken into two sections, are nearly full. The people look towards the presenter. In an aisle in between the chairs, there is a table with a projector, facing the presenter.
    A large white slide with black text that reads
    In a blurry image, four people lie down in two levels of sofa-like seating. The face of a fifth person is visible on the bottom left corner.
    Light streaks on top of a black background.
    Two people sit behind a projection booth, seemingly controlling the projector. In the background, people stand up on different levels, looking in the direction the projector is facing.
    A person sits at a table, with an open laptop. They are holding a microphone close to their face. Behind them, a large slide is being projected on the wall. The slide reads
    Two people sit on wooden chairs, facing an audience. Another person, stands next to a member of the audience, who is holding a microphone and gesturing with their hand.
    In a church, several people stand around a wooden table, with books on top. They are either holding books and paper materials, or looking at them. Behind them, a group of people is spread around the church.

    Oude Kerk open archive 

  • Drawing the Archive

    2021

    • Presentational

    Part of:Zone Collective

    On top of a overhead project's stage, someone is making notes in red on a piece of glass. Underneath it, there is a printed text.
    Two people stand behind a long table, each next to one of the two overhead projectors. They both look at things on the table, on which several other printed materials have been laid. The projectors are shining a light behind the two people, but no image is being projected. At the centre of the image, there is a dark grey triangle inside a grey circle, to indicate a
    Four people stand around a table, on top of which there is an overhead projector and other materials. On the wall, two projections show documents with handwritten notes.
    Four people stand around a table, on top of which there are two overhead projectors and other materials. On the wall, two projections show documents with handwritten notes.
    Section of text. The first two lines read
    A television box has been set on a black plinth. Behind it, there are beige curtains a white wall, onto which a text is being projected.

    dta-session-2_excerpt01.mp4 

    dta-session-2_excerpt02.mp4