Welcome to Holding Pain – Ritzo ten Cate
Artist talk + lab opening
Sunday March 29th
Free entrance 

Registration via this form is required, as spots are limited.

14.15 – Doors open
14.35 – Doors (really) close
14.45 – Start programme
17.00 – Doors reopen / drinks / winding down 

Language: English.

Ritzo ten Cate shares images, audio, insights and the source code behind “Holding Pain”: a photographic ritual in which he collectively explores grief, vulnerability, and connection through ongoing research.

On March 29th, Ritzo introduces his work with an artist talk (with experiential elements), followed by a reflective and hands-on participatory afternoon centred on open-source collaboration. Participants are invited to experiment with the material —individually or together— in an open lab for exploration and create new (but connected) work.

Artists and makers are welcome to participate in a multi-session making-process at NP3 using Ritzo’s work as a starting-point for a collective making practice. By responding to, transforming, or combining the Holding Pain code and data with their own artistic practice, this open process prioritises collective exploration of vulnerability and grief over sole authorship of ideas. 

About Holding Pain:
Holding Pain is a digital shamanic, photographic ritual inquiry into how we deal with what we would rather avoid. In Ritzo’s setup, one-on-one winter rituals took place in nature; in March the participants of these rituals meet in the closed session “Holding Pain Together” — to share what can be shared, turning the individual into the collective. 

Then follows the start of “What Remains of Holding Pain”, an exposing, an exposure of what remains, where the individual and collective may dissolve into the universal. This process starts with “Welcome to Holding Pain”. 

And you are welcome.

More info about the work: Holding Pain.