In the chapter "Separation perfected" of his book Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord argues that life in its entirety represents no more than an "immense accumulation of spectacles". The direct lived experience has been replaced with its representation - a socio-historico-specific interpretation, conception, way of signification. Being, living, and experiencing thus becomes 'participating' and 'performing' in mass-mediated ideas and images of life, being, experiencing, etc. Subjects are reduced to spectators, feebly engaged in an "inversion of life" established within the norms and values of the various and endless spectacles. For Debord, modern existence amounts to nothing more than "non-living". Subjects are alienated from the species-being and exist in imaginary and arbitrary narratives of self-realization and happiness. Life is so detached from the 'real', has acquired such a degree of artificiality, that the "true is merely a moment of the false".

But as long as the "true" still is - even if it makes its appearance in a moment of the false - an authentic experience, a moment of life as opposed to non-life, a line of escape from the spectacular order can still be found.

So, where does one look?

Geoges Perec, for instance, urges to reinvestigate the quotidian. In his short passage "Approaches to What?", he explains,

"To question the habitual. But that's just it, we're habituated to it. We don't question it, it doesn't question us, it doesn't seem to pose a problem, we live it without thinking, as if it carried within it neither questions nor answers, as if it weren't the bearer of any information. This is no longer even conditioning, it's anesthesia. We sleep through our lives in a dreamless sleep. But where is our life? Where is our body? Where is our space?"

By looking at the infra-ordinary, the unspectacular, we begin to defamiliarize. We start looking from a distance.

Many authors argue, among them Debord's group, the Situationists, that only the act of dislocation, defamiliarization, and, more generally, distanciation can lead to a moment of truth, an experience of real life.

This project is based on defamiliarization. It is about the experiences that occur by playing games of dislocation, inspired by the work of Debord, Perec, Auster, Cortazar, Auge and several others.