Luminocity: Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke

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Socially Distant Studio Visit #15 with artists Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby in conversation with curator John Massier.

Duke & Battersby en conversation avec Tess Takahashi

The artists talk to curator John Massier about their exhibition entitled Hopelessly Middle Aged - A Hallwalls Artist In Residence project. Part 1 of 2. http://www.hallwalls.org/visual/5218.html

Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. Their work has been broadcast and exhibited around the world. Duke and…

Images Festival is putting the spotlight on the artistic duo this weekend in Toronto

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby are the dynamic duo that have been creating their art together since 1994. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and at festivals in North and South America, Asia and throughout Europe. Duke and Battersby are currently teaching at Syracuse University in

The artists talk to curator John Massier about their exhibition entitled Hopelessly Middle Aged - A Hallwalls Artist In Residence project. Part 2 of 2. http://www.hallwalls.org/visual/5218.html

From a short story of the same title, the artists have written: People have children because they distract us from the knowledge that our lifes work amounts at best to something minor, a marginal note in one of billions and billions of stories. Instead of dwelling on our irrelevance, we can be delighted by tiny toes. We can form our mouths into ohs and bees and ems for a purpose, not just to pass the time. At shitty middle-age, we are consumed by our children, overwhelmed by their needs and hopes and failures, but not yet swallowed by their defection to families of their own.

Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, October 16–November 13, 2010