Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
STREAMERS
Benoit Maubrey
A participatory public sound sculpture build from 300 recycled loudspeakers and radios STREAMERS: a “Corona” Sculpture with integrated live video streaming function. The structure is a replica of the original Pest Sculpture (Pestsäule) situated on the Graben street in the center of Vienna. Streamers is as an active Participatory public sculpture in many ways: — local inhabitants are invited to donate their second hand speakers , tube radios and hi-fi furniture as hardware for the sculpture. — local inhabitants, their visitors , local artists, musicians , neighbourhood choral groups can use the sculpture as a “Speakers Corner“ and participate via a number of ways: — by calling either one of two available telephone numbers to express themselves for 3 minutes. — via Bluetooth they can relay songs and messages to the sculpture. — via direct „line in“ they can connect their devices and instruments or speak directly through a microphone. — via an “audio twitter” (to #speakersarena) their messages are automatically read out loud. — via the internet and streaming video systems callers can see the sculpture and see the public that they are communicating with without physical contact.
A participatory public sound sculpture build from 300 recycled loudspeakers and radios STREAMERS: a “Corona” Sculpture with integrated live video streaming function. The structure is a replica of the original Pest Sculpture (Pestsäule) situated on the Graben street in the center of Vienna. Streamers is as an active Participatory public sculpture in many ways: — local inhabitants are invited to donate their second hand speakers , tube radios and hi-fi furniture as hardware for the sculpture. — local inhabitants, their visitors , local artists, musicians , neighbourhood choral groups can use the sculpture as a “Speakers Corner“ and participate via a number of ways: — by calling either one of two available telephone numbers to express themselves for 3 minutes. — via Bluetooth they can relay songs and messages to the sculpture. — via direct „line in“ they can connect their devices and instruments or speak directly through a microphone. — via an “audio twitter” (to #speakersarena) their messages are automatically read out loud. — via the internet and streaming video systems callers can see the sculpture and see the public that they are communicating with without physical contact.