Witches of Design – Ann Lee: Design, Trance and Feminism sociology Let's make kin

Let's make kin

the reader

art critic

One of the basic challenges in the work of artist Idan Hayosh is the search for an order

and implications of a particular group of art workers

Witches of Design – Ann Lee: Design, Trance and Feminism sociology Let's make kinStarting from the story of Ann Lee, the founder of the egalitarian Shaker sect in 1774, Witches of Design combines the tenets of Shaker designfamous for its rocking chairs, flat brooms and other iconic objectswith the seditious figure of the witch. In 1837, the community's established ritual order was disrupted by impromptu bouts of ecstatic trancesthe start of the so called Era of Manifestations. Driven by the spirit of Ann Lee, unruly sisters began