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.
silver
Monika Dutta and Jake Harries
'silver' is a short, meditative film work with composed soundtrack. The footage for 'silver' was shot in birch woods planted to naturalise the site of a former industrial quarry; now established to a point where one might assume the woods to be indigenous to the locale, the film conveys a timelessness at odds with the true natural history of the site. Hypnotic and beautiful, 'silver' evidences a historical precedent for re-wilding and restoring natural habitat. The work should be viewed at http://element.alittlepieceofland.org.uk/silver.html
'silver' is a short, meditative film work with composed soundtrack. The footage for 'silver' was shot in birch woods planted to naturalise the site of a former industrial quarry; now established to a point where one might assume the woods to be indigenous to the locale, the film conveys a timelessness at odds with the true natural history of the site. Hypnotic and beautiful, 'silver' evidences a historical precedent for re-wilding and restoring natural habitat. The work should be viewed at http://element.alittlepieceofland.org.uk/silver.html