Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis: A Time-Based Collective Experience
@ 6018North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, June 27th, from 7:30 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, July 26th
Please join 6018North on Saturday, June 27th for a performative event exploring the myth of Persephone.
Through an Open Call this Summer, 19 artists – in two sessions – are exploring the myth of Persephone, a story both ancient and urgently contemporary. Interpreting the myth through our present ecological, social, and spiritual realities, the artists are creating installations and performances throughout 6018North. The culminating performances invite audiences into a cyclical journey between the Underworld and the Upperworld: a descent into darkness and an emergence into the light of transformation. Moving through a series of immersive environments, visitors experience the myth not as a fixed narrative, but as a living passage shaped by the artists’ interpretations, where themes of loss, extraction, renewal, and collective possibility unfold through encounter, movement, and participation.
Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis Session 1 features performances by resident artists Kyle Gregory Price with Billie Howard and Niki Vatianou, Lauren Reed, and Lizz Windnagel with Patrick Marschke. I-Ching readings by Raissa Bailey and visual artworks by Hailey Becker, Bei Qi, and Gray Snyder.
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.
Session 1 Resident artists bios:
Kyle Price is a genre-fluid composer, percussionist and turntablist by trade, who regularly produces work in other mediums including stop-motion animation, jewelry making, costume design and dance/movement. He has a Bachelors of Music in Composition from SUNY Fredonia in 2005 and since moving to Chicago he has performed solo and collaboratively, and served as the composer and bandleader in various projects ranging from punk and noise to chamber music and free-jazz. In 2014, Kyle Gregory Price and Deirdre Harrison co-founded The Lucky Trikes, a story-telling chamber band for children that has featured over 30 Chicagoland musicians from the classical, new music and free-jazz scenes. The Lucky Trikes has performed more than 250 times across the Chicagoland area.
Lauren Reed is a movement-based artist who has been actively creating and performing dance work in Chicago since 2013. In 2011 and 2012 Lauren studied Cuban social and religious dances and their connection to cultural practices in Santiago, Cuba. With a passion for exploring social dance communities, Lauren is an avid Lindy Hopper, traveling nationally to compete. She is lead Co-Collaborator of Ishti Collective which brings together artists of various dance disciplines to create innovative performance pieces that transcend any distinct style. Since 2013 Lauren has been running a youth development program called Teen Leaders Club.
Lizz Windnagel is a multi-disciplinary performer, creator, and director living based in Chicago and traveling often to Minneapolis. Lizz hopes to create playgrounds for outsiders and weirdos. They value the performance of transgression, irreverence, and vulnerability while interrogating the past, present, and future.
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