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.
Contemporary Asian Poultry
Bismah Hayat
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.