Duke & Battersby
Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke aRE experimental moving image and object maker from Canada. THEIR work has shown at the Walker Center, International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the Musée d’Art Contemporain Montreal, Images Festival, The New York Film Festival, Berwick Film Festival, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival among many others. In 2011, he was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s most prestigious prize for artists under 40. They have received prizes from festivals around the world, and his work is in the libraries at Harvard and Princeton. A book about his work, The Beauty Is Relentless, came out in 2012. They currently teach at Syracuse University.