Antek Walczak
BE CORPSE (Ausschnitt)
Zombies have their place in culture, and with that status there come all the restrictions
afforded by being stuck in a genre – horror – that ensures a continuing popularity while
keeping things on the culinary level of cannibalistic gore and floppy entrails splatter effects
We have yet to see any great leap of zombies outside of their limited niche, and in fact such a
leap would not only be unexpected, but also greeted with dismay by horror fans and casual
indifference from everyone else. For those who would take the zombie on a stroll outside of
its graveyard, supplement a diet of human flesh and blood with whole grains and carbonated
drinks, the exercise seems futile, even time-wasting, but then again this could be mistaken for
a positive signal, a green light to go ahead and undertake a bit of speculative zombie theory.
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Bernadette Corporation was formed in a Manhattan nightclub in 1994, and
began organizing DIY social events that evolved into unauthorized art
carnivals in SoHo parking lots. From 1995 to 1997, the group worked
under the guise of an underground fashion label. In 1999 it
self-published a magazine, "Made in USA," and began producing videos,
such as "Hell Frozen Over" (2000, A fashion film about the poetry of
Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white.) and "Get Rid of Yourself" (2003,
a video-tract that aligns itself with nascent forms of political
resistance within the anti-globalization movement... a filmed essay that
works by betraying its own form."). In 2005 Bernadette Corporation
authored the collective novel "Reena Spaulings," which was published by
Semiotext(e). Currently they are experimenting around the possibilities
of an underground film studio in Berlin with their project "Pedestrian
Cinema."
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Bernadette Corporation - King Kong, Hamburg Kunstverein, Jan 27 - March
26, 2006
Bernadette Corporation, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Nov. 19, 2005 - Jan.
8, 2006
Cinéma des damnés / Tout doit disparaître, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Le
Studio / Project Room, Paris, Sept. 2004
How to make 'life' fashionable? Galerie Meerrettich, Volksbuhne
Pavilion, Berlin, October 2003
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Group Therapy , Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano,
Italy, September 2006 - January 2007
La Maman et la putain , Galerie Air de Paris, France, June - July 2006
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne , Institute for
Contemporary Arts, Philadelphia, April - July 2006
Whitney Biennial 2006 Day for Night, Whitney Museum, New York, March 2 –
May 28, 2006
Populism, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; National Museum
of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, April 2005
Now and Ten Years Ago, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, November 2004
The Big Nothing, Institute for Contemporary Arts, Philadelphia, June
2004
Ex-Argentina, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, February 2004
Dave Allen, Bernadette Corporation, Naomi Ben-Shahar, Edith Russ Site
for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany, December 2003
Let's Entertain, Walker Arts Center, MN; Portland Art Museum, OR; Centre
Pompidou, Paris; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Miami Art Museum, FL,
February 2000
FC Gundlach / Bernadette Corporation, American Fine Arts Gallery, NY,
January 1997
SELECTED PRESS
Bernadette Corporation, Witte de With Rotterdam, Deux Critiques, par
Cathrine Chevalier et Yoann Van Parys, Frog, Numéro 3 Printemps/Été 2006
Top Ten Art Books of 2005, Spex, January 2006
Bernadette Corporation in Witte de With, Metropolis M, December 2005
Corporate Blanding by Rachel Aviv, VLS, The Village Voice, November 8,
2005
Books: Exquisite Corporation by Christopher Bollen, Artforum, October
2005
Greater Gatsby by Stephan Geene, Texte Zur Kunst, June 2005
Hallo Wände (Bernadette Corporation: Reena Spaulings) by Peter Abs,
Spex, May 2005
Bernadette Corporation by Emily Pethick, Frieze Magazine, March 2005
Indestructible Life: A review of Bernadette Corporation, Reena Spaulings
by McKenzie Wark, nettime.org, February 2005
Bernadette Corporation, Techniques of Today by Bennett Simpson,
Artforum, September 2004
Get Rid of Yourself by Chris Kraus, Index Magazine, June 2004
Radical Chic by Diedrich Diedrichson, Die Zeit Leben, Nr. 37, 4
September 2003
Bernadette Corporation by Bennett Simpson, Corporate Mentality, pub.
Lukas & Sternberg, Inc. 2003
Whatever-bloc by Bernadette Corporation, Texte Zur Kunst, April 2002
Slow Fashion ou Ralentir la mode by Francois Cusset, La Revue des Deux
Mondes, September 2001
Geheimnis der mode by Josef Strau, Texte zur kunst , December 2000
Bernadette Corporation Interview, Index Magazine , May/June 1997
Passion Spills Out of American Design by Constance C.R. White, The New
York Times, September 29, 1996
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