Aleesa Cohene, Like, Like | 2009 | 7min | 2 Channel Installation | Canada
Aleesa Cohene & Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay The Same Problem | 2009 | 5min | DV | Canada
Like, Like portrays two love-sick women. The women are composite characters created from the actions, reactions and dialogue of multiple women from multiple sources.
The Same Problem
Every time he woke up, it was the same problem. An ambiguous call and response is enacted between a roaring, stormy ocean and a solitary figure whose wailing lament is fashioned from ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ sampled from pop music. The ocean, too, is a composite of footage from diverse film sources, a catalogue of storms remembered or imagined. Like a siren the singer howls at his sublime interlocutor until his voice is engulfed, overwhelmed and silenced.
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Vancouver-born artist Aleesa Cohene has been producing videos since 2001. Her work has shown in festivals and galleries across Canada as well as in Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Scandinavia, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States; and has won prizes at Utrecht’s Impakt Festival and Toronto’s Images Festival. She has participated in artist residencies in Canada, the Netherlands and Denmark. She is currently doing a fellowship at the Kunsthochschule für Medien (KHM) in Cologne, Germany.
