{"id":1084,"date":"2003-11-20T03:37:47","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:58:18","slug":"bad-ideas-for-paradise-videos-by-emily-vey-duke-and-cooper-battersby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/11\/20\/bad-ideas-for-paradise-videos-by-emily-vey-duke-and-cooper-battersby\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Ideas for Paradise: Videos by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, November 20, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/cgb-evd-2-big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2402 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/cgb-evd-2-big.jpg\" alt=\"cgb-evd-2-big\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Something funny is going on in the world of Duke and Battersby, the Canadian video artists who put themselves at the center of their collage-like explorations, which, nevertheless, are only marginally autobiographical.\u00a0 Speaking shifty aphorisms, singing doleful folksongs and mingling with psycho-babbling and straight-talking cartoon animals, this self-described \u201csexually compatible collaborative duo\u201d make a sly joke out of their own alienation.\u00a0 In <em>Curious About Existence <\/em>(2003), a classroom of earnest students takes in a lecture about thermodynamics and dead human relationships; a couple stumbles around an introverted science fiction apartment in <em>I Am a Conjuror<\/em> (2003); skateboarding teenage boys and an unseen animal running along the ceiling tiles share the stage in <em>The Fine Arts<\/em> (2003); \u201cMy secrets are so boring.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe in art or socialism\u201d confesses a robot in <em>Being Fucked Up<\/em> (2001); the languorous protagonists are halfway to a three-way in the bogus Southern gothic <em>Rapt and Happy<\/em> (1998). Also includes:<em> Bad Ideas for Paradise<\/em> (2002) (Jim Trainor). 1998\u20142003, Duke and Battersby, Canada\/USA, ca. 70 min, various formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 20, 2003, 8pm Something funny is going on in the world of Duke and Battersby, the Canadian video artists who put themselves at the center of their collage-like explorations, which, nevertheless, are only marginally autobiographical.\u00a0 Speaking shifty aphorisms, singing doleful folksongs and mingling with psycho-babbling and straight-talking cartoon animals, this self-described \u201csexually compatible [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/11\/20\/bad-ideas-for-paradise-videos-by-emily-vey-duke-and-cooper-battersby\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Bad Ideas for Paradise: Videos by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[70,108,211,251,468],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8","tag-animation","tag-canada","tag-experimental","tag-group-shows","tag-performance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}