Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years

A survey of the impact that a New York-based organization whose purpose has remained intentionally nebulous (publishing and filmmaking are among its projects) has had on visual culture.--Noah Silverstein "Elle Magazine "

Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years is the first monograph on the work of Bernadette Corporation, the New York-based collective founded in the early 1990s. The book extends from their retrospective exhibition of the same name held at Artists Space in 2012, constituting a further site to reframe the Corporation's activities and identity of the past 20 years. The book is structured chronologically, loosely following the year-by-year timeline of the group's history that also formed the backbone of their Artists Space exhibition. The publication gathers a vast array of visual and textual material. It includes the Bernadette Corporation's operations within the realm of fashion; their interventions into the magazine culture of the 1990s, as well as the group's own short-lived periodical, Made in USA; the fragmented output of Pedestrian Cinema during the group's Berlin years; and the fusion of poetics, branding and meta-commentary within their gallery shows of the 2000s.