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.
What is The Right Question?
Monika Dutta and Jake Harries
What is The Right Question? is an installation work comprising a large scale photographic image displayed alongside an accompanying text, intended as a provocation for viewers to consider their own position in a modern consumerist world and the possibilities in adopting other approaches. A 5 metre long black and white print was created by digitally stitching selected frames from a four and half minute video pan across a wild meadow filled with dandelions. (In the submitted image, the text has been appended so as to be readable.) The artwork can provoke viewers to consider the global impact of agriculture by presenting a challenge to common beliefs about what is or is not food; to consider sustainable systems of growth that can feed us without threat to biodiversity.
What is The Right Question? is an installation work comprising a large scale photographic image displayed alongside an accompanying text, intended as a provocation for viewers to consider their own position in a modern consumerist world and the possibilities in adopting other approaches. A 5 metre long black and white print was created by digitally stitching selected frames from a four and half minute video pan across a wild meadow filled with dandelions. (In the submitted image, the text has been appended so as to be readable.) The artwork can provoke viewers to consider the global impact of agriculture by presenting a challenge to common beliefs about what is or is not food; to consider sustainable systems of growth that can feed us without threat to biodiversity.