THE OPEN MOMENT | THINKING IN EXPLOSION OF A MEMORY
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On Friday 12 June, The Centre for the Less Good Idea presents The Open Moment | Thinking In Explosion of a Memory.
This Open Moment follows a five-day mentorship by Belgian artist and theatremaker Camille de Bonhome.
Having first encountered De Bonhome’s practice in 2021 through The TalentLAB in Luxembourg, The Centre is delighted to host De Bonhome for a mentorship that will see her exploring the 1984 play Explosion of a memory by Heiner Müller.
De Bonhome will work with Johannesburg-based artists to further test the play through repetition, exhaustion, and multiple languages to question, among other things, the relationship between violence and its representation, how we build images and how we change the meaning of an image, and how meaning is changed through the body. This mentorship is as much about De Bonhome extending her research through her engagement with the participants as it is about the participants growing through their encounter with her process.
On Friday 12 June, The Open Moment will feature a combination of the experiments, learnings, and early outcomes of the mentorship, offering the audience the opportunity to witness some of the processes of the mentorship.
The Thinking In Photography participants are: Campbell Meas, Fana Tshabalala, Itumeleng Moeketsi, Jaden Mosadi, Thabang Chauke, Katlego Jack Moloi, Mlungisi Tshobeka, Nolwazi Mahlangu, Nomsa Myth Tavarwisa, Nomsa Tina Mavuka, Sami Maseko & Slindile Mthembu
Thinking In Explosion of a Memory is made possible with the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique – Direction du Théâtre
DATE | FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2026
TIME | 19H00
VENUE | THE CENTRE SPACE, THE CENTRE FOR THE LESS GOOD IDEA, ARTS ON MAIN, 264 FOX STREET, MABONENG
DURATION | 60-90 MINUTES
TICKETS | R150
BOOKINGS | www.lessgoodidea.com/bookings
About Camille :
Camille de Bonhome is a director and artist from Liège. She studied acting (EICAR) and theatre studies (Sorbonne Nouvelle) in Paris and undertook internships with Rosalba Torres (Ballets C de la B) and director Jan Lauwers (Needcompany). After completing her studies, she returned to Belgium, where she worked as an assistant, costume designer and dramaturg with several Belgian companies (Peeping Tom, KoudVuur, Guy Cassiers).
At the same time, she began creating her own projects based on a strong stage-centred approach. Although her practice is multidisciplinary (music, performance, video and theory), her starting point is always based on dramaturgical research. In this sense, she works with the repertoire and mythology as material to challenge the source of theatricality and explore the relationship between the creative process and the result.
In April 2021–2022, she directed Sandro Mabellini in Pascal Rambert’s text L’art du théâtre at Les Riches Claires and is working on a film project, Les Antigones. In April–May 2026, she directed Chair de ma Chair at the Théâtre Centaure (Luxembourg), a monologue about birth that she wrote for the actress Anne Brionne.
Having recently qualified as a drama therapist, she writes and sets up theatre projects for hospitals (HUDERF, CHIREC) and schools in Brussels (MABO). These projects aim to bring theatre to places where it is not expected and where it may, perhaps, still make a difference. Integrating issues of health and well-being into her practice allows her to extend her reflection on the pressing question of the performing arts and the role they can play in society.
This Open Moment follows a five-day mentorship by Belgian artist and theatremaker Camille de Bonhome.
Having first encountered De Bonhome’s practice in 2021 through The TalentLAB in Luxembourg, The Centre is delighted to host De Bonhome for a mentorship that will see her exploring the 1984 play Explosion of a memory by Heiner Müller.
De Bonhome will work with Johannesburg-based artists to further test the play through repetition, exhaustion, and multiple languages to question, among other things, the relationship between violence and its representation, how we build images and how we change the meaning of an image, and how meaning is changed through the body. This mentorship is as much about De Bonhome extending her research through her engagement with the participants as it is about the participants growing through their encounter with her process.
On Friday 12 June, The Open Moment will feature a combination of the experiments, learnings, and early outcomes of the mentorship, offering the audience the opportunity to witness some of the processes of the mentorship.
The Thinking In Photography participants are: Campbell Meas, Fana Tshabalala, Itumeleng Moeketsi, Jaden Mosadi, Thabang Chauke, Katlego Jack Moloi, Mlungisi Tshobeka, Nolwazi Mahlangu, Nomsa Myth Tavarwisa, Nomsa Tina Mavuka, Sami Maseko & Slindile Mthembu
Thinking In Explosion of a Memory is made possible with the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique – Direction du Théâtre
DATE | FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2026
TIME | 19H00
VENUE | THE CENTRE SPACE, THE CENTRE FOR THE LESS GOOD IDEA, ARTS ON MAIN, 264 FOX STREET, MABONENG
DURATION | 60-90 MINUTES
TICKETS | R150
BOOKINGS | www.lessgoodidea.com/bookings
About Camille :
Camille de Bonhome is a director and artist from Liège. She studied acting (EICAR) and theatre studies (Sorbonne Nouvelle) in Paris and undertook internships with Rosalba Torres (Ballets C de la B) and director Jan Lauwers (Needcompany). After completing her studies, she returned to Belgium, where she worked as an assistant, costume designer and dramaturg with several Belgian companies (Peeping Tom, KoudVuur, Guy Cassiers).
At the same time, she began creating her own projects based on a strong stage-centred approach. Although her practice is multidisciplinary (music, performance, video and theory), her starting point is always based on dramaturgical research. In this sense, she works with the repertoire and mythology as material to challenge the source of theatricality and explore the relationship between the creative process and the result.
In April 2021–2022, she directed Sandro Mabellini in Pascal Rambert’s text L’art du théâtre at Les Riches Claires and is working on a film project, Les Antigones. In April–May 2026, she directed Chair de ma Chair at the Théâtre Centaure (Luxembourg), a monologue about birth that she wrote for the actress Anne Brionne.
Having recently qualified as a drama therapist, she writes and sets up theatre projects for hospitals (HUDERF, CHIREC) and schools in Brussels (MABO). These projects aim to bring theatre to places where it is not expected and where it may, perhaps, still make a difference. Integrating issues of health and well-being into her practice allows her to extend her reflection on the pressing question of the performing arts and the role they can play in society.
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