Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years featuring Hell on Earth [And the Mutha Fuckin’ Saga Continues]

New York: Artists Space, 2012. Softcover, [62]pp., 7.5 x 5.5 inches. Very Good. Moderate creasing to center of spine, overall handling wear. Includes a 10 x 6 inch facsimile flyer from the original event held at Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street. A lookbook documenting Bernadette Corporation's Fall/Winter 1997 collection, HELL ON EARTH [AND THE MUTHA FUCKIN 'SAGA CONTINUES]. Published on the occasion of their first retrospective, Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years, held at Artists Space in New York. Carried by a millennial urge that had been active for thousands of years, pop culture of the 90's was loaded with sorcerous and supernatural aspects that played far beyond the subcultures of alien abductees, vampire cults, Satanists, and teenage goths. More serious than the 70's phenomena of paying homage to Aleister Crowley and Anton Lavey in rock n' roll and the pre-apocalyptic crimes of Charles Manson, the 90's God-hating trend enjoyed widespread popularity and appeared to be burying its roots. It all began in part with the Harmonic Convergence of 1987, a weekend celebration by groups of new age pagans all over the world. Besides supposedly opening the portal into new dimensions, the event popularized the idea of druids, witches, Celtic ghosts, vampires, and established the council of five alien races patrolling the solar system. With the passing of the Hale-Bopp passengers, we could identify another culprit in the spiritual crisis of the 90's - the computer. Powered by a silicon chip, the computer was considered to be an entity of crystal. Crystals became popular deities of late, worn as necklaces in the eighties and used as blades for sacrificial daggers in the 90's. Man cannot handle the crystal, it speaks to him deeply and he always does what it tells him to do. The HELL ON EARTH [AND THE MUTHA FUCKIN’ SAGA CONTINUES] collection for fall 1997 paid tribute to the dark, nostalgic forces alive in the late 90's in the technology of commodities and the breaking of the new dawn we had all been waiting for.