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.
Net-Work
Adrian Baker
“Net-Work” is a socially engaged fibre-art installation based on the science of tree communication. 190 participants worldwide have created 300 hand-crafted ‘strands’ to embody the vast underground network of mycorrhizal fungi that enables symbiotic tree interaction. Collaborators include artists, crafters, weaving guilds, family units, & Indigenous groups, working with varied natural fibres. The project has stimulated dialogue not only on our mutualist relationship with nature, but also on the recent elevated significance of our ‘virtual’ network of interconnection. This project encourages collaboration and communication between a widespread and diverse group of participants, initiating reflection and dialogue on creative ways to foster human-nature connectedness.
“Net-Work” is a socially engaged fibre-art installation based on the science of tree communication. 190 participants worldwide have created 300 hand-crafted ‘strands’ to embody the vast underground network of mycorrhizal fungi that enables symbiotic tree interaction. Collaborators include artists, crafters, weaving guilds, family units, & Indigenous groups, working with varied natural fibres. The project has stimulated dialogue not only on our mutualist relationship with nature, but also on the recent elevated significance of our ‘virtual’ network of interconnection. This project encourages collaboration and communication between a widespread and diverse group of participants, initiating reflection and dialogue on creative ways to foster human-nature connectedness.