The Jewish Museum, 2025 How to Trap a Demon is an immersive encounter with artist Tamar Ettun. Visitors were invited to participate in a two-part performance beginning with a viewing of over 130 Hanukkah lamps on view at the Museum, followed by a somatic invocation guided by the demon Lilit (Lilith), conjured by the artist. In her reimagining of Lilit—a mythological figure of fear reclaimed as a symbol of female autonomy—Ettun crafted a luminous and timely work of healing and reclamation through embodied movement, shifting light, and emerging shadows. The artist invited participants to take part in a collective ritual that connects them with their own and others’ shadows.
Text by Hillit Zwick, The Jewish Museum
Demons: Tina Wang, Ezra Benus, Andy Nicholas Li
Music: Chris Ryan Williams
Costume Design: VVORK VVORK VVORK
Ceramic Bowl: Jennifer Fiore/MONDAYS
Lighting Design: Robert Cangemi
Assistance: The One Who Triumphs Obstacles
Photographer: Adam Alcantara
Seamstress: Kate Gonzales
Videographer and editor: Anne Sofie Norskov
