This project is researching how a comedy show on insanity could be created and aims to research the subject of madness and the performance of insanity. What is the creative idiot? How can play be an option for understanding the Other? The research is the phenomenology of crazy as the unknown, the stranger and the other.  This research questions the ethics of the performance as well as its aesthetics. How can crazy perform itself in an international performative arts context? The focus is to understand the Other as the unknown as unavailable to reason and therefore impossible to perform as understandable. The object of research is the conflict between reason and its negation as the unknown stranger.  The result of this project is an idea on how to create this performance, as a way of practicing madness in a safe space and enjoy insanity as a way of producing the not yet known, as a way of playing life. / Det här examensarbetet önskar resultera i en idé till en humorföreställning. Det undersöker tematiken kring galenskap och på vilket sätt det går att gestalta den. Undersökningens fokus är vansinnets fenomenologi och möjligheten till dess gestaltning inom internationell scenkonst.  Detta examensarbete undersöker föreställningens förutsättningar både etiskt och estetiskt via teori och praktik. Hur kan galenskapen gestaltas oavsett tid, plats och form? Fokus kommer först och främst att ligga på själva researchfasen i projektet men delar av materialet kan komma att användas i den framtida föreställningen. Resultatet är en idé till en humorföreställning som gestaltar galenskap och dess bakomliggande teorier om humor som en konflikt mellan förnuft och oförnuft.

[pt] Ao tomar como ponto de partida a instalação performativa Stifters Dinge (2007), do compositor e encenador alemão Heiner Goebbels, esta dissertação propõe experimentar e discutir, desde uma perspectiva ensaística, fragmentária e indisciplinar - isto é, resistente a uma adesão rígida a disciplinas e vertentes teórico-críticas bem demarcadas -, impasses de atos de leitura e de escrita no presente. Trata-se, por um lado, de buscar responder aos embaraços da interpretação e da representação mobilizados pela experiência inquietante de Stifters Dinge, também designada por Goebbels como um concerto para cinco pianos sem pianistas, uma peça sem atores e uma performance sem performers; e, por outro lado, de interrogar, pela escritura, movimentando-se por caminhos exploratórios e inconclusivos, modos de legibilidade e valoração no campo ampliado das artes hoje. No trânsito entre a estética e a política, as formas e os efeitos, a teoria crítica e a epistemologia, a dissertação realiza um exame minucioso de Stifters Dinge levando-se em consideração tanto o caráter performativo do gesto teórico-crítico como algumas tensões fundamentais na relação entre a linguagem e a constituição do saber. / [en] This dissertation takes as its starting point the German composer and director Heiner Goebbels s performative installation Stifters Dinge (2007), seeking to experiment and bring into discussion some impasses related to acts of reading and writing in the present. The research is carried out through an essayistic, fragmentary and indisciplinary perspective - that is, one that is resistant to rigid adherences to disciplines and well-demarcated theoretical critical approaches. On the one hand, the aim of this study is to try to react to the problems of interpretation and representation shaped by the disturbing experience of Stifters Dinge, which is also described by its director as a composition for five pianos with no pianists, a play with nobody acting, and a performance with no performers. On the other hand, it intends to interrogate forms of legibility and valuation in the expanded field of arts today, moving through exploratory and inconclusive paths in a writing supported by the barthesian notion of écriture. In the transit between aesthetics and politics, forms and effects, critical theory and epistemology, the dissertation performs a thorough examination of Stifters Dinge taking into consideration both the performative condition of the theoretical critical activity and some fundamental tensenesses on the relation between language and constitution of knowledge.