speaking out bernadette van-huy

SPEAKING OUT BERNADETTE VAN-HUY interview by olivier zahm and aleph molinari OLIVIER ZAHM — When the Bernadette Corporation collective was created in the mid-’90s, why did everyone decide to use your name? BERNADETTE VAN-HUY — It was Thuy Pham’s idea to impersonate a corporation and to call us that. Corporations often adopt a female front, to seem warm and giving.   ALEPH MOLINARI — So, it’s a play on not being corporate? BERNADETTE VAN-HUY — Corporation — in a romantic, fictional way, imagining we’re a corporation in a William Gibson novel. Corporation — because corporations are society’s lawful criminals. So, the corporate name is a permission slip, a rabbit hole. A good-looking font behind which you can do whatever you want and disappear. Corporation — to annoy the politically correct types. And finally, because yes, it’s a joke, a play on not being corporate. We lived in a filthy, windowless…