Ballad of the Infernal Grove
Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby
»If there is ever real peace,« Mother joked once, »they’ll have to gas me like a war dog.« It’s funny because Mother knew there would be no peace for she or me. So, we infiltrate: deliberate, taciturn, benign. My mother made an instrument and it is I. Mother, I wail.

Emily Vey Duke
Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. Their work has been broadcast and exhibited all around the world. They are currently teaching at Syracuse University in Central New York. In 2010 they were shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. 2012 a book was published about their work, titled The Beauty is Relentless.
Films by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born 2019 | Dear Lorde 2015 | Here Is Everything 2013 | Lesser Apes 2013 | Beauty Plus Pity 2009 | Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure 2006 | Bad Ideas for Paradise 2001

Cooper Battersby
Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. Their work has been broadcast and exhibited all around the world. They are currently teaching at Syracuse University in Central New York. In 2010 they were shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. 2012 a book was published about their work, titled The Beauty is Relentless.
Films by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born 2019 | Dear Lorde 2015 | Here Is Everything 2013 | Lesser Apes 2013 | Beauty Plus Pity 2009 | Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure 2006 | Bad Ideas for Paradise 2001