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.
Transparent Memory
Asaki Kan
My work is about all kinds of weather I experience every day, and I wanted to use this natural phenomenon as universal non-verbal language through my work. As I am always fascinated by heat, I wanted to work with it somehow as well as using materials such as mirror, copper, and water, which can be found anywhere, and I often use them in my work. As water falls onto the ground drop by drop, it evaporates to the air, which is an elemental circulation of weather. As time passes by, I wanted to see how each watermark leaves its trace on the copper. It might turn to green later due to oxidisation according to property of water. Water in the tank might get dried out if it does not rain. But that indicates time, and I believe that my work still works even if the tank becomes empty as it will rain someday and one day. Although the initial point of this work is very personal, I would like people to see, hear, smell, taste, feel, and think in their own way freely without any pre-conception, and get inspired by. My work is an extract capture of this universal perpetual actual time we are living in, and this work is temporary in this space, therefore not everyone would experience it. But I hope that they would remember somehow when they visit here again or wherever, and whenever, as a transparent memory.
My work is about all kinds of weather I experience every day, and I wanted to use this natural phenomenon as universal non-verbal language through my work. As I am always fascinated by heat, I wanted to work with it somehow as well as using materials such as mirror, copper, and water, which can be found anywhere, and I often use them in my work. As water falls onto the ground drop by drop, it evaporates to the air, which is an elemental circulation of weather. As time passes by, I wanted to see how each watermark leaves its trace on the copper. It might turn to green later due to oxidisation according to property of water. Water in the tank might get dried out if it does not rain. But that indicates time, and I believe that my work still works even if the tank becomes empty as it will rain someday and one day. Although the initial point of this work is very personal, I would like people to see, hear, smell, taste, feel, and think in their own way freely without any pre-conception, and get inspired by. My work is an extract capture of this universal perpetual actual time we are living in, and this work is temporary in this space, therefore not everyone would experience it. But I hope that they would remember somehow when they visit here again or wherever, and whenever, as a transparent memory.