A collaborative project with students from the Art History Institute, University of Cologne.
Conception: JULIA HÖNER

We find ourselves in the United States. A smartly dressed lady is guiding a tour through the museum and has all kinds of information about the objects. Sounds like the usual kind of guide, if the lady in the suit were not Andrea Fraser—an artist playing the role of art mediator dedicated to the relationship involving art, institution, and audience.
The history of this exciting complicity and its protagonists was the subject of a practical seminar at the Art History Institute at the University of Cologne in summer 2011. 
In the coming months, the students will built upon this course by developing a new series of thematic guided tours at KAI 10, in which they will articulate their individual perspectives of the shows. In the process they will bring to light amazing background information and unexpected contextual associations of the projects. Andrea Fraser would be pleased.

PROGRAM to accompany the exhibition REFLEXION UND EINFÜHLUNG

Thursday, February 9, 2012, 7 p.m.
MATERIAL, MEDIUM, AND MESSAGE IN REFLEXION UND EINFÜHLUNG
Maike Streit in conversation with the audience

Thursday, March 1, 2012 10, 2011, 7 p.m.
WHAT’S IT LOOK LIKE FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF ART HISTORY
VERSUS ART? COMPARING METHODS OF REFLECTING ON HISTORY
Alexandra Peter

Part of the hafenlichtspiele produced by the Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf
Friday, 12 August 2011, 9:30 p.m.
Ueckerplatz, in front of the Medienzentrum, Kaistraße

Introduction by Mascha Kirchlechner, student of Art History at the University of Cologne

Meet the Eye, 7 Min. in English
by Aïda Ruilova, artist of Expanded Territory 

Moon, 96 Min.
GB 2009, OmU, Regie: Duncan Jones, mit Sam Rockwell

To preview our upcoming show, Expanded Territory, KAI 10 will present Duncan Jones’ film, Moon. The process of unfolding the human psyche in a place with a special atmosphere plays a role in both the film and the works that will be seen in the exhibition. Opening the evening is the film Meet the Eye, by artist Aïda Ruilova.

Chosen by students at the Art History Institute at the University of Cologne, the film kicks off a series of events programmed by young art historians at KAI 10.

For more information on the hafenlichtspiele program, see www.filmwerkstatt-duesseldorf.de

hosted by Julia Höner (Project Director KAI 1

Julia Schleis (Project Director KAI 10),
Thomas W. Kuhn (Art Historian and Journalist)

Ben Kaufmann (Curator of the exhibition),
Gregor Jansen (Artistic Director, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf)

Programm:
19-23.30 Uhr (halbstündlich):
Kurzführungen durch die Ausstellung Transformed Objects mit dem Team von KAI 10
ab 21 Uhr: Filmprogramm in Kooperation mit der Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf:
Kenneth Anger, Fireworks, (USA, 1947, 16 Min.)
Richard Fleischer, Follow me Quietly, (USA 1949, 60 Min)
David Lynch, The Grandmother, (USA, 1970, 34 Min.)
23-2 Uhr: Bar in KAI 10 mit Musik von Oliver Tepel

Artist talk: Ingrid Pfeiffer (Curator, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main)
in conversation with Margret Wibmer, plus catalogue launch

hostet by Ludwig Seyfarth

Julia Höner (Project Director KAI 10),
Markus Mascher (Curator, Leopold-Hösch-Museum
and Papiermuseum Düren)