• CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | ASSISTANT CURATOR
  • AT THE CENTRE
    • COLLATION ARCHIVE (2024 - 2026)
    • SEASON ARCHIVE (2017 - 2025)
  • SO Academy
    • ABOUT
    • SO | ACADEMY BOOKINGS
    • TÊTE-À-TÊTE | ARTISTS TO PRODUCERS (2026)
    • SO | PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE
    • THINKING IN (2020 – 2026)
    • IN CONVERSATION (2017 – 2025)
    • HOW | Showing the Making (2022 – 2026)
    • THE OPEN MOMENT (2024 – 2026)
    • SO ACADEMY ARCHIVE (2021 – 2024)
  • THE CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE
    • ABOUT
    • 2026
    • 2025
    • CFLGI x FONDATION CARTIER (2024)
    • 2024
    • 2023
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
  • FOR ONCE
    • ABOUT
    • FOR ONCE ARCHIVE (2017 - 2024)
    • A KAFKA MOMENT (2021)
    • A CONSIDERED 3 MINUTES (2020/2021)
    • THE POETRY MINUTE (2021)
    • A GODOT MOMENT (2020)
    • ODD PORTRAITS OF THIS PLACE (2021)
    • THE HIGHWAY NOTICE PROJECT (2020/2021)
    • THE LONG MINUTE (2020)
  • Tickets
  • THE TEAM
  • FRIENDS OF THE LESS GOOD IDEA
  • About

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

  • CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | ASSISTANT CURATOR
  • AT THE CENTRE
    • COLLATION ARCHIVE (2024 - 2026)
    • SEASON ARCHIVE (2017 - 2025)
  • SO Academy
    • ABOUT
    • SO | ACADEMY BOOKINGS
    • TÊTE-À-TÊTE | ARTISTS TO PRODUCERS (2026)
    • SO | PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE
    • THINKING IN (2020 – 2026)
    • IN CONVERSATION (2017 – 2025)
    • HOW | Showing the Making (2022 – 2026)
    • THE OPEN MOMENT (2024 – 2026)
    • SO ACADEMY ARCHIVE (2021 – 2024)
  • THE CENTRE OUTSIDE THE CENTRE
    • ABOUT
    • 2026
    • 2025
    • CFLGI x FONDATION CARTIER (2024)
    • 2024
    • 2023
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
  • FOR ONCE
    • ABOUT
    • FOR ONCE ARCHIVE (2017 - 2024)
    • A KAFKA MOMENT (2021)
    • A CONSIDERED 3 MINUTES (2020/2021)
    • THE POETRY MINUTE (2021)
    • A GODOT MOMENT (2020)
    • ODD PORTRAITS OF THIS PLACE (2021)
    • THE HIGHWAY NOTICE PROJECT (2020/2021)
    • THE LONG MINUTE (2020)
  • Tickets
  • THE TEAM
  • FRIENDS OF THE LESS GOOD IDEA
  • About

 COLLATION ARCHIVE (2024 — 2026)

As of 2024, The Centre for the Less Good Idea’s programming in Johannesburg is led by our Impresario for the Less Good Idea, Neo Muyanga. Together with The Centre’s core team, Muyanga develops and implements a unique performative series within our spaces, titled Collations.

Collations is a short, focused series of performance-based events curated around a central theme, method or point of interest. Exploring modes of performance such as radio plays and silent films in collaborative and experimental ways, Muyanga’s interest is in exploring a dramaturgy of sound and a contemporary aurality, among other things.

COLLATION 5 | BETWEEN GHOSTS & SHADOWS

Workshopping in the Ghost
Photographer | Zivanai Matangi

COLLATION 4 | THE MASKANDALIFICATION OF OPERA

Euridice
Photographer | Zivanai Matangi

COLLATION 3 | THE UNEXPECTED CITY

Gaueteng (for Ebenhaezer)
Photographer | Stella Olivier

COLLATION 2 | SOUNDING PICTURES: LIVE SCORES TO SHORT, SILENT FILMS

Kassaram
Photographer | Zivanai Matangi

COLLATION 1 | ON AIR: VISUAL RADIO PLAYS

The Dalmation & the Duck
Photographer | Zivanai Matangi