All Around the Room

Hancock Shaker Village

Pittsfield MA

June 7-November 30

Interdisciplinary artist and Shaker researcher Maria Molteni’s immersive installation brings a recorded trance experience of young Shaker visionist Ann Mariah Goff into playful, ephemeral form. Combining the concept of “borrowed light” in Shaker architecture, with an 1837 transcription that describes dream-like visits to the City of Paradise and the “first room that Mother Ann came to after she left earth”, All Around the Room composes an evocative material imagining of the encounter, which marked the beginning of the Shaker Era of Manifestations.

Exhibited in the Brick Poultry House.

843 West Housatonic St.
Pittsfield MA