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: Don Stahl

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)

Project Team: Diana Mangaser & Yoshihiro Sergel
Engineer of Record: Michael Carr P.E.

1463sf live/work studio with 777sf outdoor walled garden
+ 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.

POSENENSKE SESSIONS II
Models & Workshop for Charlotte Posenenske
Dia Art Foundation
Beacon, NY
2021

Workshop Lead: Diana Mangaser

In conjunction with the exhibition Charlotte Posenenske, Dia Art Foundation presented Posenenske Sessions II—a winter workshop session in-person at Dia:Beacon and online via zoom. In keeping with the participatory and democratic process that Posenenske envisioned for her work, workshop participants were invited to collaborate in designing the installation.

Workshop Participants: Brigit Larson, Carrie Scheinder, Charlotte Foley, Christina Delius, Eva Jespersen, Daniel Oates-Kuhn, Laura Genes, Mira Dayal, Mollie McKinley, Nicole Kaak, Quinn Schoen, Stephen Kwok, Tongji Philip Qian, Yoshihiro Sergel. Thanks to:  Alexis Lowry, Matilde Guidelli Guidi, Ian Wallace, Meagan Mattingly, Alex Vargo, Valerie Chang (Dia Art Foundation); Ricardo Fuentes & Michelle Batho (Fabhaus). Photography: Don Stahl

DANCE PLATFORM
Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens NY
2019

Platform Design: Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser
Project commisioned by: Mauricio Cortes & Alva Mooses (MAALVA Studio)

19’ x 19’ interlocking wood structure and deck set in volcanic gravel ring

Designed for Alva Mooses’ as part of her project, Se entra bailando / You enter dancing, at Socrates Sculpture Park, this dance platform was inspired by the Purépecha ‘troje’—vernacular architecture decimated by the eruption of Paricutín volcano in Michoacán, México in 1943.  The eruption forced the Purépecha residents of San Juan Parangaricutiro to relocate and left only fragments of the local church visible. The Dance Platform utilized an interlocking wood structural grid to support the wooden deck and provide a hollowness for reverberation of the dancer’s steps, an integral part of the performance. The modular design allowed for ease of construction, transportation, and installation of the wooden elements on site. The wood elements were stabilized and surrounded by a bed of of decomposed black asphalt emulating the volcanic eruption.