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.
"2021 AD"
Miguel Punzalan
My work is a vision of a far future in which humanity has long emerged from the ills of the present, raging pandemic sweeping the globe. Key elements featured in this assemblage are objects and accoutrements of an imagined future looking into an artifact of the past that is the year 2021, a time during which the virus has (plausibly) long petered out. This composition would include: a face mask, a bottle of hand sanitizer, a smartphone, a bottle of alcohol, medication, and a syringe of the much-coveted Covid-19 vaccine. These "artifacts" were sourced from six strangers from different generations, persuasions, and social standings who all share one common goal: a positive, healthier future full of foresight, preparedness, and wisdom. "2021 AD" is a tribute to an era; a time capsule to this current present time of which we wish nothing more to already become the past. "2020 AD" is an allegory for a hopeful future, one that sees the mistakes of the history as mere artifacts and nothing more but a bittersweet memory that would jumpstart an era of progress for society and the environment towards a New Greening.
My work is a vision of a far future in which humanity has long emerged from the ills of the present, raging pandemic sweeping the globe. Key elements featured in this assemblage are objects and accoutrements of an imagined future looking into an artifact of the past that is the year 2021, a time during which the virus has (plausibly) long petered out. This composition would include: a face mask, a bottle of hand sanitizer, a smartphone, a bottle of alcohol, medication, and a syringe of the much-coveted Covid-19 vaccine. These "artifacts" were sourced from six strangers from different generations, persuasions, and social standings who all share one common goal: a positive, healthier future full of foresight, preparedness, and wisdom. "2021 AD" is a tribute to an era; a time capsule to this current present time of which we wish nothing more to already become the past. "2020 AD" is an allegory for a hopeful future, one that sees the mistakes of the history as mere artifacts and nothing more but a bittersweet memory that would jumpstart an era of progress for society and the environment towards a New Greening.