SOIL SESSIONS: Soil Compositions
Workshop in support of the exhibition:
Delcy Morelos | El abrazo curated by Alexis Lowry with Zuna Mara
Dia Chelsea
New York, USA
2024
Workshop Lead: Diana Mangaser
In conjunction with Delcy Morelos: El abrazo, Dia presented Soil Sessions, an iterative series of interdisciplinary activations, poetic responses to, discursive reflections on, and embodied engagements with earth as subject and material in Morelos’s work.
Drawing on her own relationship to soil as an architect and artist, Diana Mangaser identifies soil as a creative and generative material that shapes our surroundings. For Soil Compositions, Mangaser lead a material-focused workshop in which participants created their own unique soil compositions by selecting from an array of aggregates.
As a primer for developing a deeper understanding of soil, the workshop imagined each material contributing its specific character to a personal soil structure reflecting the maker’s identity in some way. Mangaser poses questions for us to consider: What is soil? What is our relationship to soil and in what ways does it reflect on how we build our contemporary life?
Thanks to: Megan Mattingly, Stephen Kwok, Angel Barba (Dia Art Foundation); Yoshihiro Sergel & Elliot Kleinman; Photography: Don Stahl
TEA HOUSE: MANITOGA
Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center
Garrison, NY
2021-22
Project Lead: Yoshihiro Sergel
Project Support: Diana Mangaser
Artist In Residency Installation
12’-4.5” x 12’-4.5” x 8’-0” interlocking cedar structure set on stone footings with (8) sliding string doors, (4) felt tatami, lime concrete hearth, and paper roof tiles.
Thanks to: Allison Cross—Director at Manitoga & Staff: Vivian Linares, Nina Scibelli, Kelly Ellenwood, Emily Phillips & Mia Wendel-DiLallo, Sarah Connors, and all the incredible tour guides; Installation Assistance: Zach Blaue, Alex Cimbal, Sanjay Thakur, John Zelehoski; Component Fabrication: Jason Bauer (Third Room), Ricardo Fuentes (Fabhaus); Photography: Michael Vahrenwald
codas s/t
Ways Inner Pass
Newburgh, NY
Releases February 22, 2022
codas was produced as a collaborative project between WAYS INNER PASS and Y S D M, a meditation on time and repeating form.
STANDARD EDITION of 60 white c78 cassettes, with 4" x 10"print.
TEA SET EDITION of 30, including one 3.5" ceramic tea bowl and one tea bag alongside white c78 cassette with 4" X10” art print.
sounds by Yoshihiro Sergel and Cory Levinson
mastering by Sean McCann
ceramics and tea blend by Diana Mangaser
art & packaging by Y S D M
available through waysinnerpass.com
+/- waysinnerpass.bandcamp.com
POSENENSKE @ the BAUHAUS
Models & Workshop for the exhibition:
Fictional: Charlotte Posenenske/Alexis Lowry
Haus Gropius, Bauhaus Foundation
Dessau, Germany
2021-22
Curator-In-Residence: Alexis Lowry
Workshop Facilitation & Model Design: Diana Mangaser
By invitation from Alexis Lowry to collaborate on an exhibition of Posenenske’s work at the Bauhaus, Diana Mangaser designed models & a workshop inviting public to design sculptures using paper board series DW models at 1:20 scale. These crowd sourced designs then inform and shape the layout and reconfiguration of the full scale elements three times over the course of the exhibition.
Thanks to: Alexis Lowry (Dia Art Foundation); Dr. Florian Strob, Valentina Camacho (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation); Medhi Choukari, Daniel Pfau (Galerie Mehdi Chouakri - Posenenske Archive)
Models & Workshop for the exhibition:
Fictional: Charlotte Posenenske/Alexis Lowry
Haus Gropius, Bauhaus Foundation
Dessau, Germany
2021-22
Curator-In-Residence: Alexis Lowry
Workshop Facilitation & Model Design: Diana Mangaser
By invitation from Alexis Lowry to collaborate on an exhibition of Posenenske’s work at the Bauhaus, Diana Mangaser designed models & a workshop inviting public to design sculptures using paper board series DW models at 1:20 scale. These crowd sourced designs then inform and shape the layout and reconfiguration of the full scale elements three times over the course of the exhibition.
Thanks to: Alexis Lowry (Dia Art Foundation); Dr. Florian Strob, Valentina Camacho (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation); Medhi Choukari, Daniel Pfau (Galerie Mehdi Chouakri - Posenenske Archive)
LIVE/WORK
Newburgh NY
2014-2020
Project Team: Diana Mangaser & Yoshihiro Sergel
Engineer of Record: Michael Carr P.E.
1910s Historic Veterninary Clinic/Carriage House & Apartment
1463sf live/work studio with 777sf outdoor walled garden
+ 731sf 1bed/ba with 732sf outdoor terrace
+ 731sf 1bed/ba with 732sf outdoor terrace
Before the building was acquired from Newburgh Community Land Bank, this historic property was once a horse surgery and at one point the city dog pound, after which it stood vacant for decades. In collaboration with our client, a local artist, the building’s terraced shell was transformed into two levels of artist live/work spaces leveraging historic tax credits and affordable housing grants.
Historic elements, like the brick facade, window openings, and original metal skylights manufactured in 1800s by Philip Kempler Co. Newburgh, have been restored and continue to let natural light into the newly renovated interiors. Both the ground floor space and second floor apartment open to generous outdoor terraces enclosed by masonry walls creating private oases in the midst of the urban environment.
INDEX
TEA HOUSE
Manitoga
Spring Street Garden
Woods Gerry
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
Lake Cabin
Rowhouse
Live/Work
Studio 2Q
CURATORIAL
Artist In Vacancy
Ann Street Gallery
EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS
Dia: Chelsea
Bauhaus Dessau
Dia: Beacon
Arts Letters & Numbers
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Codas
Dance Platform
Winter Solstice Bells
Hako Sushi
Bubuto
Salo
TEA HOUSE
Manitoga
Spring Street Garden
Woods Gerry
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
Lake Cabin
Rowhouse
Live/Work
Studio 2Q
CURATORIAL
Artist In Vacancy
Ann Street Gallery
EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS
Dia: Chelsea
Bauhaus Dessau
Dia: Beacon
Arts Letters & Numbers
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Codas
Dance Platform
Winter Solstice Bells
Hako Sushi
Bubuto
Salo
Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.
Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.
Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.
By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.
As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.
Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.
Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.
By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.
As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.