Hades Redux

Sunday, November 1 at 3PM + 7PM

A Time-Based Collective Experience at 6018 N. Kenmore, Chicago IL

The story of the underworld is both ancient and urgently contemporary. We invite you to descend into the darkness as we then attempt to emerge into the light.

Drink the pomegranate. Eat the chocolate. Lose yourself in the music. Then see if you can find your way out with help from Raissa Bailey, Lise Haller Baggeson, Bobbi and Steve Meier, Pablo Monterrubio-Benet, William Raynovitch, and Adriana Vignola.

We live in the “real world” but we offer the Underworld, Transformation, and and Upper wold. When you leave you will understand. Multiple dimensions can co-exist.

Moving through the artist designed spaces at 6018North, visitors are invited to undergo their own brief descent and return — entering the unresolved, the in-process, the unfamiliar, and emerging changed by what is encountered.

Audiences journey through the house in small groups, creating a beginning-to-end experiential passage through the Underworld as it resonates with our present ecological, social, and spiritual realities. Extraction, here, is not only myth: it is the present condition of a warming, depleted earth, and transformation is our siren call.

The project features visual, installation, and performance artwork by the following artists: Lise Haller Baggesen, Hailey Becker, Bei Qi, Bobbi Meier and Steve Meier, Eileen O'Halloran, Monika Plioptyl, Gray Snyder, and Adriana Vignoli. Sound and video installations by Charles Krampah and William Raynovich. Raissa Bailey. While each work has its own integrity, all are developed in dialogue to contribute to a cohesive audience experience.

Additional works on view from the exhibition Myth of the Organic City are by artists Rebecca Beachy with Christine Wallers, Eugenia Cheng, Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay, Brian Holmes and Jeremy Bolen, Candace Hunter, Matthew Kaplan, Jin Lee, Nathan Lewis, Luftwerk, Viet Phan, Eleanor Ross, Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty, Tria Smith and Katrin Schnabl, Amanda Williams, and Sangwoo Yoo.

seed chime for longshore drift, 2026 by Hailey Becker (foreground); *Caught from the wind and anchored to the arch قوس قزح* by Tom Burtonwood and Maryam Taghavi (background).

What will you experience:

Installation-based room activations
Short time-based performative works
Hybrid works that combines installation and performance
Experiences or mediums not contained within any one room

The project originated with artist Tria Smith’s Persephone Project and builds upon Myth of the Organic City, 6018North’s recent exhibition exploring climate change through myth and the built environment. That inquiry continues here, extended into a fully collaborative, time-based form. Each artist brings their own interpretation of the myth, the moment we are in, and how to respond.

The project continued into two Summer residencies. Session One featured visual, installation, and performance artwork by the following artists: Kyle Gregory Price, Lauren Reed, and Lizz Windnagel with Patrick Marschke. Bei Qi, Hailey Becker, Gray Snyder, and Raissa Bailey. Session Two of The Persephone Project features visual, installation, and performance artwork by the following artists: Lise Haller Baggesen, Kierah/KIKI King, Bobbi Meier and Steve Meier (top row) Eileen O'Halloran, Monika Plioptyl, Edyta Stepien, and Adriana Vignoli. Sound and video installations by Charles Krampah and William Raynovich.