Bernadette Corporation //

30.04.07 - Annie Wu - art

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Bernadette Corporation is a group of artists with changing members that question what an artist is today. ‘Get Rid Yourself’ - the title of a film they released in 2002 - is about the notion of identity refusal and over the past 10 years this idea has manifested itself in not only their outcomes but also the outcomes of other groups, such as close friends and associates, Claire Fontaine.

BC has existed as a DIY haute couture fashion label; a fashion art and text magazine called Made In USA (named after what they claim as the worst Godard film); a fictional character, novel and gallery named Reena Spaulings.

Their peers Claire Fontaine, are Ready Made artists, who belong to an anonymous art collective, who took their name from a popular famous French stationary label. Their work often comments on the idea of political dissidence via human strike, the “crisis of singularity”, and devising ways of sharing these intellectual and private properties.