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.
SYMBIOTIC FUTURES | Explorations in the forest
Romy Snijders
I propose two speculative objects, that will depict how we might communicate with trees in the future. Together they are intended to make us question: 1. Which trees are communicating? 2. What might are they be saying? 3. What might that mean? Operated by a forester, foresters are people who care for, look after, and protect the forest. In the interest of the forest. The forester does everything possible to understand and communicate with the forest in order to educate and inform society.
I propose two speculative objects, that will depict how we might communicate with trees in the future. Together they are intended to make us question: 1. Which trees are communicating? 2. What might are they be saying? 3. What might that mean? Operated by a forester, foresters are people who care for, look after, and protect the forest. In the interest of the forest. The forester does everything possible to understand and communicate with the forest in order to educate and inform society.