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.
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The forest embassy flag
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Title:
The forest embassy flag
The forest embassy flag
Author:
Alan Tod
Alan Tod
Description:
The forest embassy is a collective performance inviting all forest-artist of the planet to give the forest the true place it deserves in our cultural patrimony. Leaded by Alan Tod (E.U.) and Alex Romania (U.S.A.), the forest embassy is dealing with the memory of land-art works by staging them in multimedia installations borrowing their symbols and protocols from states. The embassy contributes to the mythology of the intelligence of plants by shaping the various archives of the spaces conquered by the work. Beyond the educational relay, the Embassy transcends sculpture in establishing the new mythology between the wilderness, the landowner and forest-artist of the world. It invites artists to practice the art of planting forests and transmits methods. In fact, the artist finds himself negotiating with the owner of the part of the land dedicated to the open forest. From a technical point of view, the memorial are multimedia sculptures investigating the interplay between performance and land art using video, projection, official documentations and any archives as propaganda material for its action. The embassy exhibits accounts of land occupation by plants, propaganda videos, makes official documentaries, establish protocols of communication with plants and sends official letters. The flag represents the intelligent plant. It represents a seed roaming the ground and the sky radiating in a green horizon. Yellow symbolizes the energy and intelligence of the plant interacting both in the sky and in the ground. It is a shaping of a consciousness : The world of plants. The embassy is a narrative experience where the plant speaks. Through the exploration of indigenous myths and biology, the performance narrative draws on the work of contemporary biology. The design of the flag is a reference to the work of scientist Stefano Mancuso. It was made in collaboration with a French graphic designer Louise Anne Demory. The passionflower symbol is a reference to the work of the French botanist Francis Hallé. This visual serves as a formatting of memorial installations. It borrows the form of state symbols to question the territory. The performance borrows a diplomatic method in order to highlight the challenges of shaping new monuments.
The forest embassy is a collective performance inviting all forest-artist of the planet to give the forest the true place it deserves in our cultural patrimony. Leaded by Alan Tod (E.U.) and Alex Romania (U.S.A.), the forest embassy is dealing with the memory of land-art works by staging them in multimedia installations borrowing their symbols and protocols from states. The embassy contributes to the mythology of the intelligence of plants by shaping the various archives of the spaces conquered by the work. Beyond the educational relay, the Embassy transcends sculpture in establishing the new mythology between the wilderness, the landowner and forest-artist of the world. It invites artists to practice the art of planting forests and transmits methods. In fact, the artist finds himself negotiating with the owner of the part of the land dedicated to the open forest. From a technical point of view, the memorial are multimedia sculptures investigating the interplay between performance and land art using video, projection, official documentations and any archives as propaganda material for its action. The embassy exhibits accounts of land occupation by plants, propaganda videos, makes official documentaries, establish protocols of communication with plants and sends official letters. The flag represents the intelligent plant. It represents a seed roaming the ground and the sky radiating in a green horizon. Yellow symbolizes the energy and intelligence of the plant interacting both in the sky and in the ground. It is a shaping of a consciousness : The world of plants. The embassy is a narrative experience where the plant speaks. Through the exploration of indigenous myths and biology, the performance narrative draws on the work of contemporary biology. The design of the flag is a reference to the work of scientist Stefano Mancuso. It was made in collaboration with a French graphic designer Louise Anne Demory. The passionflower symbol is a reference to the work of the French botanist Francis Hallé. This visual serves as a formatting of memorial installations. It borrows the form of state symbols to question the territory. The performance borrows a diplomatic method in order to highlight the challenges of shaping new monuments.
Description:
The forest embassy is a collective performance inviting all forest-artist of the planet to give the forest the true place it deserves in our cultural patrimony. Leaded by Alan Tod (E.U.) and Alex Romania (U.S.A.), the forest embassy is dealing with the memory of land-art works by staging them in multimedia installations borrowing their symbols and protocols from states. The embassy contributes to the mythology of the intelligence of plants by shaping the various archives of the spaces conquered by the work. Beyond the educational relay, the Embassy transcends sculpture in establishing the new mythology between the wilderness, the landowner and forest-artist of the world. It invites artists to practice the art of planting forests and transmits methods. In fact, the artist finds himself negotiating with the owner of the part of the land dedicated to the open forest. From a technical point of view, the memorial are multimedia sculptures investigating the interplay between performance and land art using video, projection, official documentations and any archives as propaganda material for its action. The embassy exhibits accounts of land occupation by plants, propaganda videos, makes official documentaries, establish protocols of communication with plants and sends official letters. The flag represents the intelligent plant. It represents a seed roaming the ground and the sky radiating in a green horizon. Yellow symbolizes the energy and intelligence of the plant interacting both in the sky and in the ground. It is a shaping of a consciousness : The world of plants. The embassy is a narrative experience where the plant speaks. Through the exploration of indigenous myths and biology, the performance narrative draws on the work of contemporary biology. The design of the flag is a reference to the work of scientist Stefano Mancuso. It was made in collaboration with a French graphic designer Louise Anne Demory. The passionflower symbol is a reference to the work of the French botanist Francis Hallé. This visual serves as a formatting of memorial installations. It borrows the form of state symbols to question the territory. The performance borrows a diplomatic method in order to highlight the challenges of shaping new monuments.
The forest embassy is a collective performance inviting all forest-artist of the planet to give the forest the true place it deserves in our cultural patrimony. Leaded by Alan Tod (E.U.) and Alex Romania (U.S.A.), the forest embassy is dealing with the memory of land-art works by staging them in multimedia installations borrowing their symbols and protocols from states. The embassy contributes to the mythology of the intelligence of plants by shaping the various archives of the spaces conquered by the work. Beyond the educational relay, the Embassy transcends sculpture in establishing the new mythology between the wilderness, the landowner and forest-artist of the world. It invites artists to practice the art of planting forests and transmits methods. In fact, the artist finds himself negotiating with the owner of the part of the land dedicated to the open forest. From a technical point of view, the memorial are multimedia sculptures investigating the interplay between performance and land art using video, projection, official documentations and any archives as propaganda material for its action. The embassy exhibits accounts of land occupation by plants, propaganda videos, makes official documentaries, establish protocols of communication with plants and sends official letters. The flag represents the intelligent plant. It represents a seed roaming the ground and the sky radiating in a green horizon. Yellow symbolizes the energy and intelligence of the plant interacting both in the sky and in the ground. It is a shaping of a consciousness : The world of plants. The embassy is a narrative experience where the plant speaks. Through the exploration of indigenous myths and biology, the performance narrative draws on the work of contemporary biology. The design of the flag is a reference to the work of scientist Stefano Mancuso. It was made in collaboration with a French graphic designer Louise Anne Demory. The passionflower symbol is a reference to the work of the French botanist Francis Hallé. This visual serves as a formatting of memorial installations. It borrows the form of state symbols to question the territory. The performance borrows a diplomatic method in order to highlight the challenges of shaping new monuments.