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.
Cristal Saviour - 2
Shqiponja Mehmeti
`Cristal Saviour ` represents a harmless human virus, known in science as bacterio-phage, due to they attack and destroy the bacteria during multiplication. Due to their chemical consistence and killing the pathogenic bacteria only, phages are friendly to human body. How I see `Cristal Saviour` contributing in new greening: 1. It can clean our polluted waters from bacteria, if being used 2. It can fight leathal dangerous bacteria infections Since bad bacteria is becoming more resistant against anti-biotics, bacteria-infections will soon be a serious threat to human lives. The densest abundened source of phages is the ocean, killing one third of bacteria each day. I name it `cristal virus`, because of two reasons. One, that it doesn´t eat the bacteria but kills it, the other that it looks like a cristal and soon may be our saviour against deadly infections; through fighting the most dangerous streptococe - anti-biotic resistant bacteria in the world. With the rise of pandemic, during reading I found that the major cause of death in covid-19 over 70% is sepsis and the rise of bacteria infections which attack organs of the body when immunity is focused in the lungs; and only a small persentege die of alveola destructions. If phage is being used in these cases of bacteria infections, or other cases of influenca too, pneumonia, HIV, AIDS, etc; it may save human lives, but maybe also animals´ lives during similar infections.
`Cristal Saviour ` represents a harmless human virus, known in science as bacterio-phage, due to they attack and destroy the bacteria during multiplication. Due to their chemical consistence and killing the pathogenic bacteria only, phages are friendly to human body. How I see `Cristal Saviour` contributing in new greening: 1. It can clean our polluted waters from bacteria, if being used 2. It can fight leathal dangerous bacteria infections Since bad bacteria is becoming more resistant against anti-biotics, bacteria-infections will soon be a serious threat to human lives. The densest abundened source of phages is the ocean, killing one third of bacteria each day. I name it `cristal virus`, because of two reasons. One, that it doesn´t eat the bacteria but kills it, the other that it looks like a cristal and soon may be our saviour against deadly infections; through fighting the most dangerous streptococe - anti-biotic resistant bacteria in the world. With the rise of pandemic, during reading I found that the major cause of death in covid-19 over 70% is sepsis and the rise of bacteria infections which attack organs of the body when immunity is focused in the lungs; and only a small persentege die of alveola destructions. If phage is being used in these cases of bacteria infections, or other cases of influenca too, pneumonia, HIV, AIDS, etc; it may save human lives, but maybe also animals´ lives during similar infections.