This exploration of Debord’s thought intersects the trajectories of Francis Bacon, incorporating the Not Found device—a “détournement” of image in painting and of painting in video, as well as of the spatial configuration of classical theater. If in traditional theater one would find the live bodies within the performance, in Not Found instead there lies a surface that functions simultaneously as a partition and as a screen. On this surface, real-time projections capture images generated by the bodies in motion. This element distorts the relation among action, observation, and representation: each performing body is exposed to the immediate contemplation of the visual trace that its movement produces, leading the performer to perceive themself as an instrument in the creation of the images which appear on the screen.
“The illustrative form reveals immediately, through the intellect, what it represents, while the non-illustrative form first reaches through sensation and only afterward, slowly, brings us back to reality.”
Francis Bacon
The Not Found device constitutes a dynamic ecosystem where various functions coexist.