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.
The Rhythm Behind the City
Qianwen
In Rhythm Behind the City (2019) Qianwen takes experiments from 20th century Modernism in animation, weaving, and architecture and reimagines them in the contemporary moving-image arena. Inspired by "Metabolism", a Japanese Architectural Movement, throughout 2019 Qianwen captured the "skin" of Chicago with photographs of the city's exterior. These images were woven into the fabric and reanimated with techniques inspired by 20th century Direct Animation works. Through the mutual decomposition and reconstruction of different mediums, and the journey back and forth between hand and digital, the source material is transformed and returned to the city's environment. The transition between these mediums adds motion and reveals a vibrant and vital rhythm behind the city.
In Rhythm Behind the City (2019) Qianwen takes experiments from 20th century Modernism in animation, weaving, and architecture and reimagines them in the contemporary moving-image arena. Inspired by "Metabolism", a Japanese Architectural Movement, throughout 2019 Qianwen captured the "skin" of Chicago with photographs of the city's exterior. These images were woven into the fabric and reanimated with techniques inspired by 20th century Direct Animation works. Through the mutual decomposition and reconstruction of different mediums, and the journey back and forth between hand and digital, the source material is transformed and returned to the city's environment. The transition between these mediums adds motion and reveals a vibrant and vital rhythm behind the city.