The War and the Cooked is a critical and satirical analysis of the technological visualisations of contemporary war and conflict and the influences that have brought Australia into these world events.

Using Disney as a metaphor for the global power of America the work appropriates images and footage from disparate media sources and juxtaposes them with some well known cultural products.

Touching on the ideas of both Claude Levi Strauss and Leo Strauss the focus of the work is on the power of myth. This is looked at within the context of the global media system’s representation of the War on Terror and the War in Iraq and how an idea of reality is supplanted onto the spectator.

The idea of scripted news events are analysed within the context of the work then reworked and satirised, conversely, the enforcement of an idea of democracy and capitalism through the global media is also reoccurring theme within the work.

Exhibited at PELT - Live Audio Visual Performance
U2/46 Balfour Street Chippendale Sydney, NSW 2008
http://impermanent.info/pelt

LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE
14:10min | 85Mb
(quicktime required)

MELISSA RAMOS
RHYS TURNER


Duration: approx. 15min

Materials: video projector, audio