The story of Persephone is both ancient and urgently contemporary. At its center is a cyclical journey between two realms — the Underworld and the Upperworld — descending into the darkness and emerging into the light..

This same movement shapes the residency itself. Selected artists enter a period of process and exchange — working in dialogue, sharing unfinished material, allowing their work to be changed by what surrounds it — before returning to the light in two evenings of public performance. Like Persephone’s passage between worlds, the residency does not separate the dark from the bright; it treats both as necessary stages of the same journey.

Throughout the summer, 19 visual artists and performers are responding to the myth of Persephone through the lens of extraction and transformation. 12 are collaboratively developing a time-based, immersive experience that unfolds throughout the rooms and spaces of 6018North, while 7 are providing discrete works that invite or set the stage for performances and interactions. All are activating rooms or spatial environments as part of a single collective journey.

Each session culminates in a performative event — First Session: June 27–28 and Second Session: July 25–26 — that guides audiences through the house in small groups, creating a beginning-to-end experiential passage through Persephone’s myth 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 not only Persephone’s, but ours to make.

For audiences, the project extends that invitation outward. Moving through the designated spaces at 6018North, visitors are not simply observing a myth retold, but undergoing their own brief descent and return — entering the unresolved, the in-process, the unfamiliar, and emerging changed by what they encounter.

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, Eileen O’Halloran, Monika Plioptyl, Edyta Stepien, and Adriana Vignoli. Sound and video installations by Charles Krampah and William Raynovich.