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.
Sistema Circulatório (circulatory system), 2019
Lia Nasser
The patterns of shapes between the macro and the micro existence dialogue, highlighting the interconnections they place in relation to all the material of the Earth and the Universe. Circulatory System starts from the observation of Boicucanga, in São Sebastião - SP. The place is characterized by the presence of the Atlantic Forest, urban space and beach, interconnected by water. Digital video made by artist Lia Nasser during Kaaysá ArtResidency in January 2019. Collaboration film-maker Fernanda Pessoa. The video is part of the set of works "come to be land", the result of Kaaysá ArtResidency, a one-month artistic residency in Boiçuganga, São Sebastião - SP, a coastal area characterized by the presence of the last 7% of the Atlantic Forest. It is urgent to expand the perception about the interdependence and the relationship between all beings and all the elements on Earth. The visual research that starts from the relationship with the place, through a prolonged and intense presence producing images in these relatively preserved spaces of the invasive action of the human being, and of concepts from the natural sciences and physics; in search of investigating the forms of interdependence that surrounds us. https://www.lianasser.com/videos
The patterns of shapes between the macro and the micro existence dialogue, highlighting the interconnections they place in relation to all the material of the Earth and the Universe. Circulatory System starts from the observation of Boicucanga, in São Sebastião - SP. The place is characterized by the presence of the Atlantic Forest, urban space and beach, interconnected by water. Digital video made by artist Lia Nasser during Kaaysá ArtResidency in January 2019. Collaboration film-maker Fernanda Pessoa. The video is part of the set of works "come to be land", the result of Kaaysá ArtResidency, a one-month artistic residency in Boiçuganga, São Sebastião - SP, a coastal area characterized by the presence of the last 7% of the Atlantic Forest. It is urgent to expand the perception about the interdependence and the relationship between all beings and all the elements on Earth. The visual research that starts from the relationship with the place, through a prolonged and intense presence producing images in these relatively preserved spaces of the invasive action of the human being, and of concepts from the natural sciences and physics; in search of investigating the forms of interdependence that surrounds us. https://www.lianasser.com/videos