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.
Recess Time - by Practice Tuckshop (Singapore)
Ang Xiao Ting
Food waste is one of the biggest waste streams in Singapore. As most food in Singapore is imported from overseas, consumers are used to purchasing unblemished produce. In order to de-stigmatise ugly produce, we created Recess Time! Recess Time is a lunch party at the heart of the Singapore arts district. It is a long-running participatory work that stages a social situation, i.e. lunch, as the site for public engagement. It has served 33 lunch sessions to date. For this programme, invited chefs go on rescue missions to salvage unwanted or ugly produce. They then incorporate the rescued produce in their menu. Each Recess Time also features a “Kaypoh” King/Queen, whose main job is to archive the conversations that emerge. Meanwhile, audiences also get to enjoy their food in the premises of Practice Tuckshop (@practicetuckshop) or on c o o p – a multi-level outdoor installation created by DO Agency with support from Nanyang Polytechnic. This reusable modular architectural system was built using biodegradable strand-woven bamboo and herbs from its solar-powered aquaponics garden are also incorporated into Recess Time menus.
Food waste is one of the biggest waste streams in Singapore. As most food in Singapore is imported from overseas, consumers are used to purchasing unblemished produce. In order to de-stigmatise ugly produce, we created Recess Time! Recess Time is a lunch party at the heart of the Singapore arts district. It is a long-running participatory work that stages a social situation, i.e. lunch, as the site for public engagement. It has served 33 lunch sessions to date. For this programme, invited chefs go on rescue missions to salvage unwanted or ugly produce. They then incorporate the rescued produce in their menu. Each Recess Time also features a “Kaypoh” King/Queen, whose main job is to archive the conversations that emerge. Meanwhile, audiences also get to enjoy their food in the premises of Practice Tuckshop (@practicetuckshop) or on c o o p – a multi-level outdoor installation created by DO Agency with support from Nanyang Polytechnic. This reusable modular architectural system was built using biodegradable strand-woven bamboo and herbs from its solar-powered aquaponics garden are also incorporated into Recess Time menus.