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Y S D M


Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY

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Y S D M


Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser
info@ysdm.studio / @ysdm.studio

WINTER SOLSTICE BELLS
for SIBYL KEMPSON - 12 SHOUTS TO THE FORGOTTEN HEAVENS
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
2017

Bell Designer: Diana Mangaser
12 Porcelain Bells ranging in size from .75” - 4”dia.

12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens was a three-year iterative performance project by American playwright, director, and performer Sibyl Kempson with her theater company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co. Presented at the Whitney on twelve occasions, 12 Shouts marked each solstice and equinox occurring between March 2016 and December 2018 creating a new ceremonial calendar and a contemporary mythology. The eighth Shout in this cycle of twelve rituals celebrated the Winter Solstice, which occured at exactly 11:28 am EST on December 21, 2017. The beginning of winter is a reminder of the important shift from darkness towards light. Astrological readings suggest that as the days begin to grow longer, the presence of the sun encourages all inner transformations to take an outward shape. At the Solstice, we begin to balance the deepest, darkest recesses of memory with the vast horizons of consciousness. At 11:28 am, the exact moment of the Solstice, and again at 4:32 pm, when the sun sets, a winter bell-ringing ceremony created a space for sanctuary. Visitors were invited to make a wish for the planet for the coming year as individuals, and as a collective. Mangaser participated in the design/fabrication of the ceremonial bells, and performed as Designer of Bells in the Shout.

Thanks to: Sibyl Kempson; Photography: Whitney Musuem of American Art

ABOUT

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 principles 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.


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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. 
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Y S D M
 info@ysdm.studio 
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