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.
A gradual process happening on the face of the...
Showna Kim
From researchers, the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) published, on December 9, 2020, a scientific study in the journal Nature entitled “The global mass produced by man exceeds all living biomass”. From the summary, a sentence clearly situates the subject: “We find that the Earth is exactly at a point of intersection. By 2020, anthropogenic mass, which recently doubled roughly every 20 years, will exceed all living biomass worldwide.’’ Inspired by the Weitzman study, this work considers the anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere in ways that humanity alters terrestrial ecosystems. The work explores the notion that both intentional and unintentional alterations depend on complex interactions between intersecting and evolving factors such as population density, technical capacity, mode of resource use and the use opportunities afforded by native and transformed ecosystems. These factors interacting and evolving across time and space within and across human systems and the biosphere are conveyed by the repetition of movement, colour changes, and blurry text imagery that signifies global anthropogenic change - change that may ultimately amplify greater negative effects propagated by humans on the planet, such as aggression, conquest and domination.
From researchers, the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) published, on December 9, 2020, a scientific study in the journal Nature entitled “The global mass produced by man exceeds all living biomass”. From the summary, a sentence clearly situates the subject: “We find that the Earth is exactly at a point of intersection. By 2020, anthropogenic mass, which recently doubled roughly every 20 years, will exceed all living biomass worldwide.’’ Inspired by the Weitzman study, this work considers the anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere in ways that humanity alters terrestrial ecosystems. The work explores the notion that both intentional and unintentional alterations depend on complex interactions between intersecting and evolving factors such as population density, technical capacity, mode of resource use and the use opportunities afforded by native and transformed ecosystems. These factors interacting and evolving across time and space within and across human systems and the biosphere are conveyed by the repetition of movement, colour changes, and blurry text imagery that signifies global anthropogenic change - change that may ultimately amplify greater negative effects propagated by humans on the planet, such as aggression, conquest and domination.