Bernadette Corporation (Livres)

Bernadette Corporation Livres

Bernadette Corporation, un collectif d'artistes basé à New York, opère dans les domaines de la mode, de la littérature, du cinéma et de l'installation. Leur travail brouille intentionnellement les lignes entre l'art et le commerce, employant des tactiques avant-gardistes pour subvertir l'identité de leur propre marque. La production présente souvent fragmentation et pastiche, mais porte une touche de sérieux politique, remettant en question les notions traditionnelles de consumérisme et d'identité. Leur approche peut être décrite comme post-postmoderne, cherchant à réaliser une fiction préférée à la réalité.

Reena Spaulings

205pages
8 heures de lecture

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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.