Slab is proud to present videos by artists Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby in the second half of a two-part program that includes Emotional Realism on Saturday, February 23. The selected videos weave together fabricated realities and realistic fantasies, which inevitably reveal not only desires but also inherent fears. Facts and fictions, anxieties and elations are presented through lyrics and music, constructed languages, and all too familiar characters.

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby and have been working collaboratively since June 1994. They work in printed matter, sculpture, installation, curation, and sound, but their primary practice is in video. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and at festivals around the world. They teach in the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University.

Slab, an exhibition method enacted by Los Angeles-based artist Wendy Mason and Houston-based curator Nancy Zastudil, considers the transitory roles of artists and curators while aiming to collaboratively facilitate artist's projects and events, exploring the fun and experimental nature of creative activity. Slab pairs up with video artists Duke & Battersby to present this two-part program.

Please note: This program contains nudity and adult language.