The aim is to consider how irreducible lives, based on their rejections, impotencies and singularities, challenge and divert the grammar of the world. The staging of the play Telúrica, a schizoscenic project by the Ueinzz Theatre Company documented in a short film by Mariana Lacerda, reveals how art and madness reach a cosmic and chaotic dimension. On the other hand, by precipitating a catastrophe, the characters in László Krasznahorkai's works reveal the nihilistic dimension of the world.

During the session, Martí Peran and Ingrid Guardiola will present Peran’s book El idiota. Ensayo sobre cualquiera y, a ratos, sobre arte (The Idiot. An Essay on Anyone and, at Times, on Art).

Peter Pál Pelbart is a philosopher. He is a professor at the Departament of Philosophy of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and a member, with Suely Rolnik, of the Centre for Subjectivity Studies, linked to the postgraduate degree in Clinical Psychology. He coordinates the Ueinzz Theatre Company composed of psychiatric patients from the A Casa day hospital. The topics he addresses are time, schizophrenia and biopolitics. Building upon his experiences in philosophy and schizoanalysis, he theorizes about contemporary subjectivities, specifically those ranging from exhaustion to nihilism. In Spanish he has published Filosofía de la deserción. Nihilismo, locura y comunidad (Philosophy of Desertion. Nihilism, Madness and Community) and A un hilo del vértigo (One Thread away from Vertigo). He is co-editor of the publishing house n-1ediçôes and a member of the Ueinzz Theatre Company.

The public programme of the exhibition The Idiot, curated by Martí Peran for Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani de Girona.