Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
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Beauty Plus Pity, 2008 Single channel video, 16 minutes
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Beauty Plus Pity, 2008 Single channel video, 16 minutes
| Beauty Plus Pity, 2008 Single channel video, 16 minutes
| Beauty Plus Pity, 2008 Single channel video, 16 minutes
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Pain Shall Be No More, 2010 Edition 1/5
| Precision, Tenderness and a Willingness to Fail Unlimited Subjectivity Series of 6 inkjet prints
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Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby perform various roles in their critically acclaimed video productions made as single monitor works and more recently as complete sculptural installations. Their contemporary fables propose that existence is abject, farcical, and messy. Duke and Battersby employ live action footage, scavenged images, and simple animations to create episodic structures that evince a simultaneously utopian and dystopian world view. Duke and Battersby’s work has been described by Cinema Scope writer Jason MacBride as “some of the most witty, charming and yes, sexy, video art this side of Spike Jonze.” More about Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
Exhibitions
Fantasia: Barrow, Boyle, Duke & Battersby
Duke & Battersby