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.
Das Sprachrohr - The Speaking Tube
Fanny Mayer and Elena Huening
A 'speaking tube', is used to amplify the sound, in our case the voices of the citizens. The pandemic raises the question of how resilient our democratic system is. Do we have to adapt to be more crisis-resistant? Our given situation requires an evermore critical public. But how can the voices be heard when assemblies can't take place any more? Maybe it is time to think about new ways for citizens' participation. Our idea is to ask the people on the streets at an attended wagon with a symbolic speaking tube on the roof. By doing so we can reach a broader cross-section of the population, collect opinions on certain topics and then formulate the goals, e.g. in form of public petitions. The 'speaking tube' makes a contribution to a more resilient city. Past experience shows that often significant changes in politics were initiated by engaged citizens. By facilitating the process we pave the way to a more grass-roots democracy.
A 'speaking tube', is used to amplify the sound, in our case the voices of the citizens. The pandemic raises the question of how resilient our democratic system is. Do we have to adapt to be more crisis-resistant? Our given situation requires an evermore critical public. But how can the voices be heard when assemblies can't take place any more? Maybe it is time to think about new ways for citizens' participation. Our idea is to ask the people on the streets at an attended wagon with a symbolic speaking tube on the roof. By doing so we can reach a broader cross-section of the population, collect opinions on certain topics and then formulate the goals, e.g. in form of public petitions. The 'speaking tube' makes a contribution to a more resilient city. Past experience shows that often significant changes in politics were initiated by engaged citizens. By facilitating the process we pave the way to a more grass-roots democracy.