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.
Air Pollution
Milan Rai
Kathmandu is ranked one of the worst polluted cities in the world. I stood in the midst of polluted through-fares wearing a Gas mask to both provoke the severity and to highlight the threat that we live with. I reached out to their offices to voice my concerns about air pollution and the lack of green spaces. Going to government offices wearing a gas mask spurred dialogues on social media, but it was evident that we need to explore accountability in political and social structures and expand the definition of art through actions.
Kathmandu is ranked one of the worst polluted cities in the world. I stood in the midst of polluted through-fares wearing a Gas mask to both provoke the severity and to highlight the threat that we live with. I reached out to their offices to voice my concerns about air pollution and the lack of green spaces. Going to government offices wearing a gas mask spurred dialogues on social media, but it was evident that we need to explore accountability in political and social structures and expand the definition of art through actions.