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.
Consumer's Diary
Jila Svicevic
I collected my receipts printed on thermal papers during my 3 months scholarship at the naturally beautiful Slovenian / Italian border. They witness my spendings and administrations. Having experimented a lot with the material, I consistently continued the collection during the 3 months I spent in Nova Gorica/Gorizia. At the end, the papers presented a diary, a chronological order and these intimate datas also showed the traces of my consumption. A consumer’s movements can be traced in time and space. The papers came from two countries, but now they are blended into one spatial network. I used a fishnet as a simplified map, as the location was close to the Adriatic sea and the timestamps were hanging from it. We are all like fish in the same water, sometimes lost in consumer networks. The traces of consumption process witness a fading of memories. That is the reason I started creating collages on these thermal papers with the use of different essential oils, about my Slovenian/Italian memories. Some of my older memories got overwritten. The numeric space became recycled by natural effects. This way recapturing the consumption by the force of nature.
I collected my receipts printed on thermal papers during my 3 months scholarship at the naturally beautiful Slovenian / Italian border. They witness my spendings and administrations. Having experimented a lot with the material, I consistently continued the collection during the 3 months I spent in Nova Gorica/Gorizia. At the end, the papers presented a diary, a chronological order and these intimate datas also showed the traces of my consumption. A consumer’s movements can be traced in time and space. The papers came from two countries, but now they are blended into one spatial network. I used a fishnet as a simplified map, as the location was close to the Adriatic sea and the timestamps were hanging from it. We are all like fish in the same water, sometimes lost in consumer networks. The traces of consumption process witness a fading of memories. That is the reason I started creating collages on these thermal papers with the use of different essential oils, about my Slovenian/Italian memories. Some of my older memories got overwritten. The numeric space became recycled by natural effects. This way recapturing the consumption by the force of nature.