Bernadette Corporation (Books)

Bernadette Corporation Books

Bernadette Corporation, a New York-based artists' collective, operates across fashion, literature, film, and installation. Their work intentionally blurs the lines between art and commerce, employing avant-garde tactics to subvert their own brand identity. The output often features fragmentation and pastiche, yet carries a sense of political seriousness, questioning traditional notions of consumerism and identity. Their approach can be described as post-post-modern, seeking to realize a fiction preferred over reality.

Reena Spaulings

205 pages
8 hours of reading

3.8(166)Add rating

Set in post-9/11 New York City, Reena Spaulings was written by a large collective of writers and artists that bills itself as The Bernadette Corporation. Like most contemporary fiction, Reena Spaulings is about a female twenty-something. Reena is discovered while working as a museum guard and becomes a rich international supermodel. Meanwhile, a bout of terrible weather seizes New York, leaving in its wake a strange form of civil disobedience that stirs its citizens to mount a musical song-and-dance riot called "Battle on Broadway." Fashioned in the old Hollywood manner by a legion of professional and amateur writers striving to achieve the ultimate blockbuster, the musical ends up being about a nobody who could be anybody becoming a somebody for everybody. The result is generic and perfect -- not unlike Reena Spaulings itself, whose many authors create a story in which New York itself strives to become the ultimate collective experiment in which the only thing shared is the lack of uniqueness.