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.
Manual for a Universal Rooting
Martina Tina Grifoni
The "Manual of Universal Rooting" is a little book that contains fourteen performative actions. It has 36 black and white pages where the actions are described with short sentences (translated in 4 languages) and simple drawings. Being aware about the big crisis the globe is going through, we decided to focus on this topic convinced that to achieve a true paradigm shift it is necessary to rediscover a way of life which is more connected to our environment by remembering that we are part of it. We intend “rooting” as re-connection to oneself, to others, to one’s context and to Nature. (This a project by Tina Grifoni and Chiara Colombi). This artwork aims at triggering an ecological change. Among its 14 actions you find meditative exercises, but also suggestions such as to consume local, seasonal and ethically produced food and commit to be part of the change around you.
The "Manual of Universal Rooting" is a little book that contains fourteen performative actions. It has 36 black and white pages where the actions are described with short sentences (translated in 4 languages) and simple drawings. Being aware about the big crisis the globe is going through, we decided to focus on this topic convinced that to achieve a true paradigm shift it is necessary to rediscover a way of life which is more connected to our environment by remembering that we are part of it. We intend “rooting” as re-connection to oneself, to others, to one’s context and to Nature. (This a project by Tina Grifoni and Chiara Colombi). This artwork aims at triggering an ecological change. Among its 14 actions you find meditative exercises, but also suggestions such as to consume local, seasonal and ethically produced food and commit to be part of the change around you.