“The Great Yes, The Great No,” will perform from Feb. 5-8 at The Wallis.
(photo by Stella Olivier)

The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg headed by founders William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace, Los Angeles Residency presents “Three Less Good Ideas in Los Angeles,” a residency from Feb. 1-8 with performances at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, CAPUCLA’s Nimoy Theater and The Broad.

The Centre for the Less Good Idea is an interdisciplinary incubator space, committed to free-spirited experimentation and collaborative-art, based in Maboneng, Johannesburg.

“The Centre is a long-term test of a strategy for making art and making meaning,” Kentridge said. “Is it a viable way of finding understanding, of constructing meaning, or simply a way of making art?”

The Wallis, CAP UCLA and The Broad have joined together to present three facets of the work of “The Centre for the Less Good Idea.”

“A Defense of the Less Good Idea” features a talk by William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace and three short form works at The Nimoy Theater at CAP UCLA, located at 1262 Westwood Blvd., on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at cap.ucla.edu.

“Unsettled Voices” will perform at The Broad, located at 221 S. Grand Ave., on Sunday, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. Tickets are available at thebroad.org, and the museum features related works that are also a part of Getty “PST ART: Art & Science Collide,” including an exhibit and an actual Los Angeles reforestation project.

“The Great Yes, The Great No” will feature at The Wallis, located at 9390 Santa Monica Blvd., with five performances Feb. 5-8. Tickets are available at thewallis.org.

With these presentations, the goal is to find the less good idea by creating and supporting these kinds of experimental, collaborative and cross-disciplinary arts projects.