• CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | ASSISTANT CURATOR
  • AT THE CENTRE
    • ABOUT
    • COLLATION 5 | BETWEEN GHOSTS & SHADOWS (2026)
    • COLLATION 4 | THE MASKANDALIFICATION OF OPERA (2026)
    • COLLATION 3 | THE UNEXPECTED CITY (2025)
    • COLLATION 2 | SOUNDING PICTURES: LIVE SCORES TO SHORT SILENT FILMS (2024)
    • COLLATION 1 | ON AIR: VISUAL RADIO PLAYS (2024)
    • 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
    • ABOUT
    • COLLATION 5 | BETWEEN GHOSTS & SHADOWS (2026)
    • COLLATION 4 | THE MASKANDALIFICATION OF OPERA (2026)
    • COLLATION 3 | THE UNEXPECTED CITY (2025)
    • COLLATION 2 | SOUNDING PICTURES: LIVE SCORES TO SHORT SILENT FILMS (2024)
    • COLLATION 1 | ON AIR: VISUAL RADIO PLAYS (2024)
    • 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

RE-MEMBERING

Slindile Mthembu is an award-winning playwright, director, dramaturg, and theatre-maker.

Mthembu’s response to the Long Minute is an act of editing existing staged performance into the confines of a minute. Here, Mthembu explores the staging of memory through the lived experience of the black women. She seeks to collapse habitual, chronological, and often one-dimensional narrative structures depicting black women and their lives.

Concept & Creation | Slindile Mthembu
Video Editor | Slindile Mthembu
Composer | Thembinkosi Mavimbela
Curator of The Long Minute | Bronwyn Lace