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.
This kinda mining is not like mining; This kinda...
Guoin
HD video 11’14’’, art-exam tables, speakers, cables 2021 From the singular viewpoint of a worker in a bitcoin-mine outwards, into the contemporary ecological, economic, and cultural way of life on the Dadu River, Sichuan, China. Cryptocurrency intrudes into life on the river, competing for electricity from the grid, young labourers during the rainy season, and disrupting endangered fish species. An overcapacity of hydropower production, a.k.a. stranded generation, brings the highest density of bitcoin mining to the region and, alongside, people without direction: drifting. The circumstance of a seasonal economy is charged with temporary value, leaving the stranded generations, both kW/h and young people's lives chronically stranded.
HD video 11’14’’, art-exam tables, speakers, cables 2021 From the singular viewpoint of a worker in a bitcoin-mine outwards, into the contemporary ecological, economic, and cultural way of life on the Dadu River, Sichuan, China. Cryptocurrency intrudes into life on the river, competing for electricity from the grid, young labourers during the rainy season, and disrupting endangered fish species. An overcapacity of hydropower production, a.k.a. stranded generation, brings the highest density of bitcoin mining to the region and, alongside, people without direction: drifting. The circumstance of a seasonal economy is charged with temporary value, leaving the stranded generations, both kW/h and young people's lives chronically stranded.