Award 2021
Please find here the approved applications to the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening. The open call was closed on 1 May.
Stay tuned for the next Social Art Award open call!
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Contemporary Asian Poultry
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Title:
Contemporary Asian Poultry
Contemporary Asian Poultry
Author:
Bismah Hayat
Bismah Hayat
Description:
My work looks at some of the ways in which chickens have figured in Eastern discourse through history. My focus is on the symbolic appearance of the chicken in the contemporary environmental and animal advocacy movements, and in media culture. The morality at issue is the degree to which the real nature of chickens has been accurately depicted or distorted inside the pretense of the typical chicken, and the political uses to which the symbolic chicken has been put. I study the chicken, its context within social settings, visual patterns of a chicken coop/pen and its formal structure to raise questions concerning the degree to which the real bird is present in or missing from the symbolic bird and the implication of explaining myths around us.
My work looks at some of the ways in which chickens have figured in Eastern discourse through history. My focus is on the symbolic appearance of the chicken in the contemporary environmental and animal advocacy movements, and in media culture. The morality at issue is the degree to which the real nature of chickens has been accurately depicted or distorted inside the pretense of the typical chicken, and the political uses to which the symbolic chicken has been put. I study the chicken, its context within social settings, visual patterns of a chicken coop/pen and its formal structure to raise questions concerning the degree to which the real bird is present in or missing from the symbolic bird and the implication of explaining myths around us.
Description:
My work looks at some of the ways in which chickens have figured in Eastern discourse through history. My focus is on the symbolic appearance of the chicken in the contemporary environmental and animal advocacy movements, and in media culture. The morality at issue is the degree to which the real nature of chickens has been accurately depicted or distorted inside the pretense of the typical chicken, and the political uses to which the symbolic chicken has been put. I study the chicken, its context within social settings, visual patterns of a chicken coop/pen and its formal structure to raise questions concerning the degree to which the real bird is present in or missing from the symbolic bird and the implication of explaining myths around us.
My work looks at some of the ways in which chickens have figured in Eastern discourse through history. My focus is on the symbolic appearance of the chicken in the contemporary environmental and animal advocacy movements, and in media culture. The morality at issue is the degree to which the real nature of chickens has been accurately depicted or distorted inside the pretense of the typical chicken, and the political uses to which the symbolic chicken has been put. I study the chicken, its context within social settings, visual patterns of a chicken coop/pen and its formal structure to raise questions concerning the degree to which the real bird is present in or missing from the symbolic bird and the implication of explaining myths around us.