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.
Imagine
Lynn Dennison
Imagine 12.10 mins, https://vimeo.com/340219812 is a video installation on two screens, exploring the dichotomy between the negative and positive aspects of nature. During a cross disciplinary residency at Birmingham University, I worked with David Hannah, professor of Hydrology; whose research paper, Summer After the Floods, was an examination of the social, economic and environmental dimensions of flood recovery and resilience. Working with the idea that one way we interact with nature is through its destructive power, this research into understanding the impacts of extreme weather events and natural hazards on human health and wellbeing, has been instrumental in informing my subsequent work, including 'Imagine,' a Video Installation on two screens, shown at Palazzo Papafava, Venice Biennale 2019. This multi layered work explores the dichotomy between the negative and positive aspects of nature, examining the idea of the healing power of nature through the use of nature meditations, juxtaposed with the threat and experience of flooding.
Imagine 12.10 mins, https://vimeo.com/340219812 is a video installation on two screens, exploring the dichotomy between the negative and positive aspects of nature. During a cross disciplinary residency at Birmingham University, I worked with David Hannah, professor of Hydrology; whose research paper, Summer After the Floods, was an examination of the social, economic and environmental dimensions of flood recovery and resilience. Working with the idea that one way we interact with nature is through its destructive power, this research into understanding the impacts of extreme weather events and natural hazards on human health and wellbeing, has been instrumental in informing my subsequent work, including 'Imagine,' a Video Installation on two screens, shown at Palazzo Papafava, Venice Biennale 2019. This multi layered work explores the dichotomy between the negative and positive aspects of nature, examining the idea of the healing power of nature through the use of nature meditations, juxtaposed with the threat and experience of flooding.