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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)
  • Performing Colonial Toxicity (4) x

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

Upcoming

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 7 April 2025.

“Active Archives. On Performance Curatorial Research and Historiographic Method” in The Routledge Companion to Performance Art, edited by Lucian O’Connor, et al. (Routledge, forthcoming 2025).

“Projections from the Archive. Performances of Cinema, Its Archival Counterapproaches, and Performance Historiography,” in Performance/Archiv, edited by Barbara Büscher, Franz Anton Cramer, and Ulrike Hanstein (VALIE EXPORT Center and University of Arts Linz, forthcoming 2025).

  • 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 

  • Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara

    2024

    • Editorial

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

    Orange tinted photograph of an arid area with some vegetation and small rocks.
    Purple book cover.
    Top edge of book, with pages forming a colour gradient.

    ct-overview.mp4 

    Two people sit next to each other on a stage. Megan speaks into the microphone. At the front, slightly blurred, three people face the stage.
    Red tinted book spread, with eight photographs on each page. The photographs show a small building, a wire fence and small objects in a desert area.
    Red tinted book spread, with three photographs. The photographs show a desert area, a wire fence and two half buried unidentifiable structures.
    Pink tinted book spread, with three photographs. The photographs show cranes. On the right, the crane is lifting materials. Under the photograph,
    Pink tinted book spread, with four photographs. The photographs show a team of people dressed in full coverage white suits arriving at a base consisting of several low buildings.
    Book spread, with two scanned pages with three photographs. They are aerial photographs of one or several desert bases, consisting of several buildings of different sizes.
    A person is reading from a book, holding the microphone. Two people, one on each side, look towards the person with the microphone.
    Book spread, with two scanned pages with seven photographs. The photographs show different buildings and some structures under construction. The word
    Blue tinted book spread, with two portrait photographs, one on each page, and a description for each of them. The photographs show two different feminine-presenting people in traditional North African dress.
    Blue tinted book spread. On the left page, a photograph shows a group of people sitting cross-legged. Across from them, someone holds a boom mic to the middle of the space. Everyone but the mic operator is wearing a turban. On the right page, there's the first page of an article on Mertoutek, accompanied with the photograph of a masculine-presenting person wearing a turban.
    In a lofty exhibition space, a group of people gather facing a stage. Many are sitting, others stand at the back. Around them, there are large screens, with photographs printed on them. On one of the screens, a video is being projected. On stage, four people sit on chairs.

    Book webshop 

  • Performing Colonial Toxicity

    2023 – 24

    • Exhibitionary

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

    Screenshot of the exhibition announcement, written in Dutch. The exhibition took place between 8th October 2023 and 14th January 2024.
    Lofty exhibition space with several large screens hanging from the ceiling. The screens have both text and images. The legible titles read:
    Lofty exhibition space with several large screens hanging from the ceiling. The screens have both text and images. The legible titles read:
    Lofty exhibition space with several large screens hanging from the ceiling. The screens have both text and images. Next to two of them, there are vertical monitors playing videos. A video is being projected into another of the screens. The legible titles read:
    Lofty exhibition space with several large screens hanging from the ceiling. One of the screens has both images and documents with redacted information. Next to two of the other screens, there are vertical monitors playing videos. A video is being projected into another of the screens. The legible titles read:
    Lofty exhibition space with several large screens hanging from the ceiling. The screens have both text and images and either a video projection or a monitor. Several people occupy the space, looking at the installations.

    pct01f.mp4 

    Lofty exhibition space with several large screens hanging from the ceiling. A person stands in front of one of the screens, pointing to the left. A group of people sitting in front, look in the direction the person is pointing at.
    Close-up of a large screen. The installation is made from several A4 sheets attached to each other with metal rings. The title in one of them reads
    Close-up of a large screen. The installation is made from several A4 sheets attached to each other with metal rings. There are large scans of newspaper articles printed across these pages.
    Close-up of two large screens. There are photos and documents printed on them. A person studies one of them carefully, with their arms behind their back.
    Lofty exhibition space with several floor-length screens hanging from the ceiling. The screens have both text and images. It is night time and the space is filled with visitors. At the front, someone crouches down as they look at the text closest to the floor.
    Person looks at a large screen, which has images and text printed on.
    In an exhibition space, someone is sat down watching a video being projected on a large screen.
    Lofty exhibition space with several large screens hanging from the ceiling. The screens have both text and images. It is night time and the space is filled with visitors. Two people watch a video being projected on one of the screens.
    Lofty exhibition space with several large screens hanging from the ceiling. The screens have both text and images. It is night time and the space is filled with visitors.
    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.

    pct-exhibition-booklet.pdf [pdf, 1.57 MB] 

    Framer Framed exhibition listing 

    Samia Henni website 

  • Testimony Translation Project

    2023

    • Editorial

    Part of:Performing Colonial Toxicity

    Schematic representation of a tunnel and location of nuclear weapon. The length of the tunnel is marked as approximately 1000 meters.

    ttp03a-overview.mp4 

    Screenshot of several PDF files in a database.
    Screenshot of several PDF files in a database. The thumbnails show documents, some with redacted information.
    Screenshot of several PDF files in a database. The thumbnails show documents, some with redacted information, and handwritten letters or notes.
    Screenshot of a webpage titled
    Screenshot of a webpage titled
    Screenshot of a webpage titled
    Screenshot of a webpage titled

    ttp03b-solange-fernex-algerie-interviews-1992_part-3.mp4 

    Installation consisting of several A4 sheets attached to each other with metal rings. In this section, there is a document with redacted information and some handwritten notes below. The title reads

    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