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.
Celestial Twin
Chana de Moura
Celestial Twin (12' 42'', super 8 mm and digital film, 2020) is a fictional narrative that explores the potentialities of a speculative, non-anthropocentric reality. When a new celestial body appears in the universe, a remaining post-collapse community promptly sends the scientific research group known as Cosmovisionary Women to explore it. In addition to envisioning a world "after the end of the world”, Celestial Twin seeks to highlight the delicate balance of biochemical circumstances that made possible the evolution of terrestrial life forms. Planet Earth, in this sense, is seen as a shelter against cosmic hostility. Furthermore, the narrative subtly questions the narcissistic character of many contemporary civilizations, in which the human race usually figures in the center, unquestionably. Video: https://youtu.be/YFFy_mrjPnw
Celestial Twin (12' 42'', super 8 mm and digital film, 2020) is a fictional narrative that explores the potentialities of a speculative, non-anthropocentric reality. When a new celestial body appears in the universe, a remaining post-collapse community promptly sends the scientific research group known as Cosmovisionary Women to explore it. In addition to envisioning a world "after the end of the world”, Celestial Twin seeks to highlight the delicate balance of biochemical circumstances that made possible the evolution of terrestrial life forms. Planet Earth, in this sense, is seen as a shelter against cosmic hostility. Furthermore, the narrative subtly questions the narcissistic character of many contemporary civilizations, in which the human race usually figures in the center, unquestionably. Video: https://youtu.be/YFFy_mrjPnw