Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby: Here is Everything

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Dunlop Art Gallery's Central Mediatheque features Lafayette, NY collaborative duo Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby's most recent single channel video, Here is Everything. Narrated by an animated cat and rabbit who claim to be speaking to us from the future, Here is Everything is a bittersweet reflection on heady themes: the inevitability of death, the existence of God, and the possibility of redemption. In contrast to many of the works in the exhibition, Tragedy Plus Time, the humour in Here is Everything is gentle, comforting, and profoundly empathetic, even as it gives pause to consider subjects we’d rather push aside.

Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. They work in printed matter, installation, new media, curation and criticism, but their primary practice is in art video. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and at festivals in North and South America, Asia and throughout Europe. Their videos have been awarded numerous prizes, and in 2011, they were shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award. Duke and Battersby currently teach at Syracuse University in Central New York.

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Here is Everything, 2013, video Image courtesy of the artists and Vtape.