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Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby

2006, 14:40 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 618.09

Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure marks our return to the episodic structure of our earlier works Rapt and Happy, Being Fucked Up and Bad Ideas for Paradise. As with earlier works, Songs of Praise takes on difficult, often painful subject matter. Themes of addiction, violence, the destruction of the natural world and the agonies of adolescence are woven through the work, but as Sarah Milroy writes for the Globe and Mail, the tape is "anything but depressing... [it is founded in] a sense of wonder at the endearing weirdness of life and all the vulnerable, furry little creatures immersed in it (especially us)."

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Critical Writing

Possibilities of Redemption: Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby...
by Jon Davies. Canadian Art, Fall 2009, v. 26, no. 3.
On Creaturely Life
by Pleasure Dome. Possible Worlds, 2007. Nowich: Aurora, 2007.