Cooper Battersby & Emily Vey Duke  |  Bad Ideas For Paradise
July 28 - August 23
Opening Reception July 28, 7pm
*Artist talk July 30 7pm, Khyber Club

Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. They work in printed matter, installation, curation and sound, but their primary practise is the production of single-channel video.

Bad Ideas for Paradise (2002) <a series of sardonic, self-obsessed, ethical, sad, bothersome, facetious video vignettes> is their most recent work. It was recently purchased for broadcast by the CBC and for the library at Harvard, and has won prizes from the NYExpo (NYC) and the Onion City Festival (Chicago).

*Cooper Battersby Artist Presentation
Khyber Club (new members and guests welcome)
Wednesday July 30 7pm

Emily Vey Duke received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and is currently completing her Masters at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was awarded the campus-wide University Fellowship. Cooper Battersby received his diploma in computer programming at Okanagan College in Kelowna, BC. He was the recipient of a Canada Council Production Grant in 2001, and began pursuit of his MFA at UIC this past fall. Cooper Battersby will give a presentation of their work on Wednesday July 30 at 7pm in the Khyber Club.