Artists Space

It's Get Better II /
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years
Book Launch

Book Launch & Performances
July 20, 2014, 6pm

Artists Space is proud to host It’s Get Better II presented by Stewart Uoo, including the world launch of Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years, the first monograph on the work of Bernadette Corporation.

A woman vaping in profile against a black background. An image of another woman and a child are visible in her exhaled smoke.
Flyer by Bill Hayden. [A woman vaping in profile against a black background. An image of another woman and a child are visible in her exhaled smoke.]

Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years gathers a vast array of visual and textual material spanning the rich image grammar and styling of Bernadette Corporations’s operations within the realm of so called style-culture, including a fashion line; their interventions into the publishing culture of the ‘90s, including BC’s own short-lived magazine Made in USA; the fragmented output of Pedestrian Cinema developed during the group’s time in Berlin; up to the fusion of poetics, branding and meta-commentary that characterized Bernadette Corporation’s gallery shows of the 2000s. The book extends from their retrospective Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years at Artists Space in 2012, constituting yet another site to reframe the activities of BC spanning the past 20 years.

Edited by Bernadette Corporation, Jim Fletcher, Richard Birkett, Stefan Kalmár
With text contributions by Caroline Busta, Jim Fletcher, Tom Holert and Josef Strau

With photos by Alex Antitch, Mark Borthwick, Dietmar Busse, Anders Edstrom, Jamil GS, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, JMN, Marcelo Krasilcic, Cris Moor, Eline Mugaas, Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett, Wolfgang Tillmans, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, David Vasiljevic, and Wah

Designed by Bill Hayden and Eric Wrenn

Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years
Produced by Artists Space
Published by Walther König Books, London
400 pages, full color throughout, 7.5 x 10”
$60

Advanced Release Limited Edition Set
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years +
•BC Lifestyle CU*, 2012/2014
Bernadette Corporation with Benjamin Alexander Huseby
Inkjet print on Canson Baryta Photographique
9 3/4 x 7 inches / 24,8 x 17,8 cm
Edition of 100 + 3 AP
Signed and Numbered
$200
Click here to purchase

Artists Space is proud to host It’s Get Better II presented by Stewart Uoo, including the world launch of Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years, the first monograph on the work of Bernadette Corporation.

The evening will include readings, performances, and videos by:

DeSe Escobar
Isa Genzken
K8 Hardy
Juliana Huxtable
Junglepussy
Marie Karlberg
La'fem Ladosha
Leigha Mason
Ariana Reines
Bailey Stiles #BearBarbie
Taocheng Wang
& more

Juliana Huxtable: It's get Better II. Performance documentation, July 20, 2014, Ukrainian National Home. [A figure sits behind a red podium and speaks into a microphone as they read from a piece of paper.]
La'fem Ladosha: It's Get Better II. Performance documentation, July 20, 2014, Ukrainian National Home. [A figure walks and struts back and forth in front of a stage in a dimly lit room as they speak into a microphone. Their face is not visible in the darkened space.]
Bailey Stiles: It's get Better II. Performance documentation, July 20, 2014, Ukrainian National Home. [A figure performs in a darkened space, moving their head and their body. At times they are not visible, and at times they are illuminated by a bright light. They are nude except for silver glitter which covers sparse parts of their body and face.]
It's get Better II. Performance documentation, July 20, 2014, Ukrainian National Home. [A figure wearing a white top performs in front of a stage, moving back and forth while speaking into a microphone.]
Ariana Reines: It's get Better II. Performance documentation, July 20, 2014, Ukrainian National Home. [A figure illuminated by a red light in an otherwise dark space speaks into a microphone as they read a text.]