The Open Call for the Social Art Award 2019 under the topic “We are the People – Peaceful Revolutions” was closed on December 15, 2019. We are very impressed by 558 submissions that were contributed by artists coming from 65 countries across all continents. 

The winners of The Social Art Award 2019 are Narcissa Gold (USA), Melinda Mouzannar (Lebanon) and Bogna Grazyna Jaroslawski (Poland/Germany). The Honorary Mention goes to Kingson Kin Sing Chan (Hong Kong/UK). 

Below you find the artworks, that passed the initial jury round. The public voting took place till 30 December and is a tool to give more public visibility to the topic and the artworks. It does not replace the final jury judgment. There were two wildcards for the most voted artworks that entered the final shortlist

The focus diversity of applications shows that artists are active in the multi-faceted fields of socially engaged art reflecting on wars, genocides, femicides, traumata, violence against refugees, children, women, men, disabled people, LGBTIQs, animals. They share feelings for the planet and its living species, but also showing hopelessness due to complex crises be it climate change (e.g. in regard to water pollution), capitalism, corruption, a violation against human rights, nature, protected national parks. Many of the artists are constantly trying to give a voice to the poorest or empower unheard social groups.

It’s not only about peaceful revolutions, but it’s also about feeling a deep connection and showing love and respect for each other.
Thank you all for sharing your great and inspirational work and look at all the great contributions!

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CONVERSATION SPEAKING
by Laszlo Horvath
Category: open category
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Title:
CONVERSATION SPEAKING

Author:
Laszlo Horvath

Category:
open category

Description:
The optical, acoustic sculpture entitled CONVERSATION, SPEAKING explores the anomaly of the organizational anomaly of our society in a form of a ceremonially anachronistic relic of the Far East embedded in the West - the excommunication from the standpoint of the individual as well as the community, the constantly regenerating generational chasms, the tool of speech as an adequate, thought-distorting, but existing necessary means of communication. Video: https://vimeo.com/245696353 The work is also a reminder of the fact that facing truths (responsibility) is a crucial necessity for our personal perseverance, in sharp contrast with today’s trendy evasion-strategies. An obvious tool is the word: albeit an overused one, always present in the parallel chaos, it is the recipe for timeless wisdom. Three generations: in a boy-child, man-women mixture, generationally in pairs, use the same spoken language separately, in isolated clusters, which we use as the most adequate regarding our species. Not even with the maturing of a generation can we efficiently transmit those repeating memes of historical-societal situational trappings which would bring a skyrocketing development of our collective society: the understanding through conversation… The interpretation of the sculpture is socially concerned, for in order to achieve the complete illusory visualization of both image and sound, a sort of communal contact is necessary, the mechanical sculpture-machine can only be witnessed in its full effect if someone operates it as the other/the rest witnesses the work.This suggestion of human interaction is also the part of the work, an important communicational accessory of the tangible-work structure.
Description:
The optical, acoustic sculpture entitled CONVERSATION, SPEAKING explores the anomaly of the organizational anomaly of our society in a form of a ceremonially anachronistic relic of the Far East embedded in the West - the excommunication from the standpoint of the individual as well as the community, the constantly regenerating generational chasms, the tool of speech as an adequate, thought-distorting, but existing necessary means of communication. Video: https://vimeo.com/245696353 The work is also a reminder of the fact that facing truths (responsibility) is a crucial necessity for our personal perseverance, in sharp contrast with today’s trendy evasion-strategies. An obvious tool is the word: albeit an overused one, always present in the parallel chaos, it is the recipe for timeless wisdom. Three generations: in a boy-child, man-women mixture, generationally in pairs, use the same spoken language separately, in isolated clusters, which we use as the most adequate regarding our species. Not even with the maturing of a generation can we efficiently transmit those repeating memes of historical-societal situational trappings which would bring a skyrocketing development of our collective society: the understanding through conversation… The interpretation of the sculpture is socially concerned, for in order to achieve the complete illusory visualization of both image and sound, a sort of communal contact is necessary, the mechanical sculpture-machine can only be witnessed in its full effect if someone operates it as the other/the rest witnesses the work.This suggestion of human interaction is also the part of the work, an important communicational accessory of the tangible-work structure.