We became aware of a space in which there was just the apex of a pyramid…. then realized over a period of years that the apex was actually one corner of a cube. Many years pass by, and we become conscious of a blob growing on the lower corner of the cube, which had been the original apex corner. As the blob grows, we realize that it’s our brain… and some years later we realize other people are there too…

I Accept

  • BC came up with a writing mechanism which led to the discovery of the blobs.
  • The blobs are not text: the writing was more like blob coding.
  • The blob is form turned outward, to space and other interiors.
  • Blobs are also self-guided, a way of steering the work in time
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  • Other words we used a lot during our work: ad infinitum, incarcerated, portal, virtual reality, human, hole, poster, door, avatar, quarantine, Meetka, meme, limited, dumb, diagram, space, body, NPC, brick, Google, gaga.
  • We said, Instead of form we say “for me” and, I want you to give me this power to you.
  • Meetka is a neighbor who became our model and the blob’s new body.
  • In the park with Meetka, we thought about doing VR without goggles.
  • Blobs are real
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  • Posters are how we enter and exit a blob. They are portals.
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  • words we kept removing from the work : quarantine, avatar, COVID, 5G, prisoner, writing, text, VR
  • Thank you: Joseph Tidwell for the portrait of Willie Nelson, Cecilia Fraher for the watercolor of the New Jersey shore, Jennifer Lacy for FREE US FROM COVID; Meetka Otto for modeling; Gabe Rubin, Ross Fletcher and Uncle Son for vocal performances; Kenneth Hartman for connection and consulting; Dream Adoption Society (Warsaw) for VR filming; Irfan Brković for video editing expertise
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Works

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept
House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
Bubbles, 2021
Three inkjet prints, wooden shelf
30.79 x 137.6 x 2.91 inches
78.2 x 349.5 x 7.4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
Willie, 2021
Inkjet print mounted on door
83.86 x 31.5 x 1.38 inches
213 x 80 x 3.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
Black Tree (I Accept), 2021
Inkjet print mounted on door
83.86 x 31.5 x 1.38 inches
213 x 80 x 3.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
Covid, 2021
Inkjet print
35.94 x 25.71 inches
91.3 x 65.3 cm
Edition 1/1, 1AP

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
Park Bench (Something that comes…), 2021
Inkjet print mounted on door
83.86 x 31.5 x 1.38 inches
213 x 80 x 3.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
White Tree (Shitting into my mouth…), 2021
Inkjet print mounted on door
83.86 x 31.5 x 1.38 inches
213 x 80 x 3.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept
House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
For Me, 2021
Inkjet print mounted on door
83.86 x 31.5 x 1.38 inches
213 x 80 x 3.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
Seashore, 2021
Inkjet print
35.94 x 25.67 inches
91.3 x 65.2 cm
Edition 1/1, 1AP

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
Bed (Stick Figure), 2021
Inkjet print mounted on door
33.46 x 83.86 x 1.38 inches
85 x 213 x 3.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept

Bernadette Corporation
Bed (Flying around…), 2021
Inkjet print mounted on door
33.46 x 83.86 x 1.38 inches
85 x 213 x 3.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ I Accept
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S walks in the park, chatting with a low flying eagle that’s sometimes a seagull (species confusion). The bird comes and goes as S walks and thinks about media and mediation since Nietzsche. There’s a fresh idea of media that is in all of us. We are this idea, as it streams through us. We comprise it. With these special qualities a medium is the thing that never stops producing itself. And so how does it help to have ideas about it? So time for example is a medium par excellence, comprised by us, makers of time. Bound in a constantly surprising way to the ongoing circus that we call the human anatomy. So it’s erotic now… it wants. And it wants life/death. There is a quality called in death, which means, not dying, not dead, but in death, which is a weird way of being that also always supports itself.

Trying out forms such as beer pong tables, the alphabet, LED lighting and infinity mirrors, The Gay Signs is populated by a few familiar characters: Nietzsche (author of The Gay Science), Sylvere Lotringer, seagull, hillbilly, Heliogabalus (the Syrian-born emperor of Rome, as told by Antonin Artaud), as well as Kanye and Kim. Meanwhile, the space of the speech bubble is a sort of lake mirrored to infinity, or an endlessly spreading stain or spill. A portrait of a medium that is a constant stream, an agonistic game, where a winning toss results in the insertion of yet more intoxicating fluid into the body of one’s adversary. The game surface horizontalizes language and image, getting the work off the wall and closer up to the pelvis.

Sylvere’s elegy to the world via the alphabet.
What is a diagram?

Where what is said matters more for its continuous rearticulation of a medium as the channel of power. So reinvention and disruption become the new, updated components of a constant stream. A medium is the thing that you are able to become blind to. It can be a vehicle for character to the point where only character appears. This is a dynamic of disappearing. To find the medium look to those who exist most purely as character. Especially unassimilated character with (therefore) maximal potency or magic. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the mirrored lake, a drowned hillbilly chimes in, reminding us that intoxication is also part of the equation: we can almost see his mind. The bird comes and goes, each time more fucked up, drugged or drunk, flying while falling and thinking strangely. S keeps on, and the next time he meets the bird it’s dead on the ground with x’d out eyes. The bird has a final idea. S supplies a punch line and keeps on.

Bernadette Corporation (est. 1994) lives and works in New York City. Recent solo exhibitions include Stedelijk

Museum, Amsterdam (2016); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2013); Artists Space, New York (2012); Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2011); Galerie Neu, Berlin (2010).

Works

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
Nietzsche Pong, 2017
CNC engraving and laser etching on 1/4″ two-way mirror acrylic, 1/4″ mirror acrylic, RGB LED light tape, power supply, powder coated steel frame, wood
24.25 x 96.25 x 29.75 inches
61.6 x 244.5 x 75.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
Sylvere Stream 2 Pong, 2017
Direct print on aluminum, extruded aluminum channel, cart, soft luggage
24 x 96 x 40.75 inches
61 x 243.8 x 103.5 cm
(tabletop 30″/ 76.2cm H, cart handle extends higher)

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
Sylvere Stream 3 Pong, 2017
SAV print, CNC engraving on 1/4″ two-way mirror acrylic, 1/4″ mirror acrylic, RGB LED light tape, power supply, powder-coated steel, casters
24.25 x 96.25 x 31.5 inches
61.6 x 244.5 x 80 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
The Gay Signs Sign, 2017
Laser etching on 1/2 clear acrylic, aluminum channel, RGB LED light tape, power supply
17 x 21 x .75 inches
43.2 x 53.3 x 1.9 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
Heliogabalus Beer Sign, 2017
Laser etching on 1/2 clear acrylic, aluminum channel, RGB LED light tape, power supply
16 x 13 x .75 inches
40.6 x 33 x 1.9 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
I love him who keeps back no drop of spirit for himself (Kanye Stream), 2017
Red LED banners, plastic trashcan, moving blanket 25 x 26 x 44 inches
63.5 x 66 x 111.8 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
Heliogabalus Pong, 2017
CNC engraving on 1/4 two-way mirror acrylic, 1/4″ mirror acrylic, trash, white LED light tape, power supply, powder- coated steel, polished brass sheet metal
24.25 x 96.25 x 31.5 inches
61.6 x 244.5 x 80 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
ABC Pong, 2017
CNC engraving on on 1/2″ acrylic, NEC 48″ Display (P484), white LED light tape, power supply, powder-coated steel frame and legs
25.75 x 96.25 x 28.25 inches
65.4 x 244.5 x 71.8 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
Eagull 1, 2017
SAV and direct print on 1/2 clear acrylic, 1/4 white acrylic
37.625 x 28 x .75 inches
95.6 x 71.1 x 1.9 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
Eagull 2, 2017
SAV and direct print on 1/2 clear acrylic, 1/4 white acrylic
37.625 x 28 x .75 inches
95.6 x 71.1 x 1.9 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
Sylvere Stream 1 Pong, 2017
Direct print on aluminum, extruded aluminum channel, wood, iron pipe
24 x 96 x 28.75 inches
61 x 243.8 x 73 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs
House of Gaga ❧ The Gay Signs

Bernadette Corporation
Gull Sculpture, 2017
Trash from MacArthur Park, laser etching on 1/2” acrylic
14.75 x 10.625 x 9 inches
37.5 x 27 x 22.9 cm

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House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow
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House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow
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House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow
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Works

House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow

Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda
Sheʼs gone, 2009
00:03:30
DVD

House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow

Trisha Donnelly
Untitled, 2008
00:06:00
DVD

House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow

Adriana Lara
5, 2010
00:08:38
DVD

House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow

Danny Mc Donald
Mindy Moves In, 2010
00:09:33
DVD

House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow

Susanne M. Winterling
Untitled (loop in two), 2010
super 16mm to DVD

House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow

Karl Holmqvist
Iʼm with you in Rockland, 2005
25 min.
DVD

House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow

Nina Könnemann
Early Morning Lessons
00:01:48
DVD

House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow

Bernadette Corporation
Hell Frozen Over, 2000
00:19:24
DVD

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Alex Hubbard
Paranoid Phase of Nautical Twilight, 2009
00:09:33
DVD

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Nina Könnemann
Pleasure Beach
00:07:05
DVD

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Antek Walczak
Dynasty, 1998
50 min.
DVD

House of Gaga ❧ Videoshow

Fernando Palma Rodriguez
Coyote, 2000
00:08:48
DVD

“En este mundo no hay nada cierto, salvo la muerte y los impuestos.”
Benjamín Franklin

“¡Muerte, impuestos y partos! Nunca hay un momento conveniente para ninguno de ellos.”
Margaret Mitchell, Lo que el viento se llevó, 1936.

Primero la noción de persona, del latín personare, que quiere decir resonar. Era la mascara usada por los actores, luego se convirtió en el papel o el actor mismo, para luego derivar en un individuo de la raza humana. Aquel que en la vida real representa una función y que existe hasta el momento de su muerte.

Luego persona moral, del latín persona ficta como forma jurídica y mores, costumbre. O persona jurídica, una entidad no natural o física vista por la ley con el estatus de persona; un sujeto aparente que oculta a los verdaderos. Existe como consecuencia del acto jurídico de constitución y puede tener una vida que exceda la de aquellas personas que la constituyen.

Entonces la pregunta es, ¿cómo y qué declarar ya sea como persona física o como persona moral, en la dinámica de la exposición colectiva de verano? Performances pasados, retratos, cuerpos y proyectos de largo plazo, personajes ficticios y Empresas… Para aquellos que declaran y aquellos que deciden no hacerlo. Para aquellas personas morales y las que son inmorales, e incluso aquellas que no existen.

Fernando Mesta
Junio 2010 , México D.F.

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House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Alex Hubbard
2010
Canvas and fiber glass
123 x 116 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Antek Walczak
Redundancy in an Adaptive Dictionary (2010)
A pair of canvases with silkscreen prints
91 x 91cm

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Bernadette Corporation

2010
Photograph/ Set of 5 images
84 x 64 cm

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House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Daniel Mc Donald
A Presentation of Ashes, With Towel & Video (2010)
Towel: $100 Bill Towel (hand-dyed, silkscreened cotton towel) Bottle, Video. 17′ 28”
162 x 72x 97 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Diego Berruecos
Dos Diegos Photograph Serie: 2 de 3
54 x 43 cm c/u

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Emily Sundblad
CD/ Lista de canciones: Si me dejas te destruyo. (2010)
S/P

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Guillermo Santamarina
Hacia Una Nueva Revolucion (2010)
Wood, cover albums, glasses and acrylic painting

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

J&Q
Hans Ulrich Obrist interview Vol. I-1
Book/Edition of 1000
200 EUR c/u

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Pamela Rosenkranz
The most important Body of Water is Yours (2010)
Acryl on Spandex
1.78 x 2.3 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Pamela Rosenkranz
Firm Being, 2009
Silicone with Pigments in PET Bottle
21 x 7 x 7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010
House of Gaga ❧ Declaración anual de personas morales 2010

Ricardo Nicolayevsky
Lost Portraits (1982-1985)

Songs

I hope / The beautiful ones
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Mi viejo
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