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 Dragons of the Sea
Producciones Abismales
“ The dragons of the Sea “ can be understood as a visual-poetic puppet theater for people of all cultures and beyond language barriers. The global pollution of the oceans with plastic is an increasingly prominent problem for the continued existence of all life, including humans. Most affected by this pollution are ocean fauna: a reality more and more polluters becoming aware of. Our protagonist, in the show, is a gigantic colorful fish and his opponent -a diver lost in time. Both are confronted with plastic for the first time. They get to know each other, start a friendship, and soon after the plastic causes them a lot of trouble. The gigantic fish, swallows a lot of plastic bags, which almost causes him to suffocate. The diver notices this at the last minute and is able to rescue the fish with the help of children from the audience. The fish is represented by an oversized puppet. It has a length of 4 meters and - with taut fins - a width of over 2 meters and floats about 1 meter above the head of the player. The actor, with a historical diving bell, represents the diver. This play is especially aimed at people from the age of five upwards. It is designed for outdoor use, but can also be staged in large rooms.
“ The dragons of the Sea “ can be understood as a visual-poetic puppet theater for people of all cultures and beyond language barriers. The global pollution of the oceans with plastic is an increasingly prominent problem for the continued existence of all life, including humans. Most affected by this pollution are ocean fauna: a reality more and more polluters becoming aware of. Our protagonist, in the show, is a gigantic colorful fish and his opponent -a diver lost in time. Both are confronted with plastic for the first time. They get to know each other, start a friendship, and soon after the plastic causes them a lot of trouble. The gigantic fish, swallows a lot of plastic bags, which almost causes him to suffocate. The diver notices this at the last minute and is able to rescue the fish with the help of children from the audience. The fish is represented by an oversized puppet. It has a length of 4 meters and - with taut fins - a width of over 2 meters and floats about 1 meter above the head of the player. The actor, with a historical diving bell, represents the diver. This play is especially aimed at people from the age of five upwards. It is designed for outdoor use, but can also be staged in large rooms.