Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
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Currently visiting Assistant Professors in the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University, NY, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby perform various roles in their critically acclaimed videos. One of their most recent productions, Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure premiered in JBAP's Fantasia exhibition. This 16 minute work combines vocal compositions and scripts by the artists who inhabit the personae of a male and female wizard. Animated drawings and video sequences are brought together in a series of contemporary fables of good and evil in which life is seen as full of abject destructiveness and hope at once. 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.”
Exhibitions
Fantasia: Barrow, Boyle, Duke & Battersby