The Centre for the Less Good Idea

The Centre for the Less Good Idea The Centre for the Less Good Idea is an incubator space for the arts based in Maboneng, Johannesburg.

The Centre for the Less Good Idea is an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts based in Maboneng, Johannesburg. Founded by William Kentridge the Centre aims find the less good idea by creating and supporting experimental, collaborative and cross-disciplinary arts projects.

📣THE CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE | THE OPEN MOMENT, KUNSTHALLE PRAHA 📣The Centre’s Bronwyn Lace has been in Prague this we...
03/09/2026

📣THE CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE | THE OPEN MOMENT, KUNSTHALLE PRAHA 📣

The Centre’s Bronwyn Lace has been in Prague this week, leading a workshop with ten cross-disciplinary artists at Kunsthalle Praha, culminating in The Open Moment. 

The Open Moment took place in conversation with William Kentridge’s exhibition ‘The Battle Between YES and NO’ which was shown from April to September 2026 at the Kunsthalle Praha 🖼️

Lace’s workshop drew on the methodology of The Centre for the Less Good Idea, exploring collaborative, collective, and secondary thinking 🔵

Devised by the artists and Lace, The Open Moment took the form of a collapsed conference, and extended the logic of the studio or the stage into the realm of the academic conference. Participants began by constructing a panel discussion before playfully refusing its form, and collapsing and extending it into a live performance 🎭 


01/09/2026

📣NOW ONLINE | THINKING IN EXPLOSION OF A MEMORY 📣

“Repetition is key. De Bonhome gets the participants to perform their vignettes over and over, each time shifting the variables and seeing what emerges – without words, without sound, without emotion. Each iteration strips something away, clarifies something else.” ✨

Head over to our website to revisit our Thinking In Explosion of a Memory workshops, and The Open Moment, with Camille de Bonhome - https://lessgoodidea.com/thinking-in-2020-2026 #/thinking-in-explosion-of-a-memory-2026/ 🔗

28/08/2026

💫 Reflecting on August’s PRACTICE | Movement with Tushrik Fredericks 💫

Bookings for our September PRACTICE sessions go live soon. Join our mailing list to be the first to know when bookings open 📫

📣 PRACTICE | SEPTEMBER 2026 📣Bookings for our September PRACTICE sessions are open. 📌Our September facilitator for PRACT...
28/08/2026

📣 PRACTICE | SEPTEMBER 2026 📣

Bookings for our September PRACTICE sessions are open.

📌Our September facilitator for PRACTICE | Voice is vocalist, drummer, and performer, Gregory ‘Kekelingo’ Mabusela.
📌Our September facilitator for PRACTICE | Movement is dancer, choreographer, and performer Phumlani Nyanga.

Book your spot and get more details at the link in bio 🔗

➡️NB: Participants need to be present for each of the 4 sessions they have signed up for. These are not drop-in sessions, and spots are limited. We ask that you please don’t sign up if you don’t anticipate attending each of the four weeks.

Photo of Gregory ‘Kekelingo’ Mabusela by Zivanai Matangi
Photo of Phumlani Nyanga supplied

26/08/2026

💫 Reflecting on August’s PRACTICE | Voice with Xolisile Bongwana 💫

Bookings for our September PRACTICE sessions go live soon. Join our mailing list to be the first to know when bookings open 📫

25/08/2026

📣 NOW ONLINE | THINKING IN PHOTOGRAPHY 📣

You can now watch The Open Moment | Thinking In Photography on our YouTube, and browse the full Thinking In Photography publication on our website!

Head over to the link in our bio to check it all out 🔗

20/08/2026

📣 IZITHUKUTHUKU: THE TATTERED SOUL OF A WORKER 📣

Izithukuthuku opens at Noorderzon festival in Groningen, Netherlands tonight and runs until Saturday 22 August 🎉

The work, by VAP Dance Academy, Theatre & Studios, Vusi Mdoyi, Phala Ookeditse Phala, and Jeremy Nedd, was incubated at The Centre in 2024.

📣HIGHLIGHTS | WORKSHOPPING TOWARDS COLLATION 5 📣July was a month of play and experimentation at The Centre, working towa...
17/08/2026

📣HIGHLIGHTS | WORKSHOPPING TOWARDS COLLATION 5 📣

July was a month of play and experimentation at The Centre, working towards new formats and ideas ✨

These new experiments inside of the extra large Pepper’s Ghost and the Shadow Space will form the basis of Collation 5, taking place from 15 to 17 October 2026 🗓️

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive regular updates about The Centre, and to be the first to hear about programme details for Collation 5 as they go live 📬

PHOTOGRAPHER | Zivanai Matangi

📣 FROM THE ARCHIVE | THE SHADOW 📣“It is in the very limitation and leanness of shadows that we learn, in the gaps, in th...
12/08/2026

📣 FROM THE ARCHIVE | THE SHADOW 📣

“It is in the very limitation and leanness of shadows that we learn, in the gaps, in the leaps to complete an image, that we perform a generative act of constructing the shape...” — William Kentridge, Norton Lectures, Drawing Lesson One: In Praise of Shadows (Harvard University, 2012)

📌Shadows have long been an integral part of both William Kentridge and The Centre for the Less Good Idea’s ways of working and making sense of the world. Here, we see a few examples of shadowplay, shadow theatre, and incidental shadows cast in the act of making, throughout The Centre’s history.

The Shadow will also play a big role in our upcoming performance programme, Collation 5, this October 🗓️

PHOTOGRAPHER | Zivanai Matangi

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