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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Crafting Narrative / invitation to poetic-thinking for...
by Eriko Jane Takeno
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Title:
Crafting Narrative / invitation to poetic-thinking for...

Author:
Eriko Jane Takeno

Category:
open category

Description:
This poetry-sculpture installation ‘Crafting Narrative’ invites the audience to experience the healing power of poetic thinking, by following the artist’s own journey of poetic discovery and emotional recovery. Eriko Takeno developed her workshop ‘Sensory Multimodal Workshop; Space as Medium, Poetic Thinking as A tool’, as a way to share with others her own introspective exploration of poetry as a therapy for anxiety. In the workshop, participants are invited to develop a mindful approach to their own perceptions of the physical environment and to communicate their experiences with the rest of the group. The workshop unfolds as a triple process of observation, visualization, and discussion. Working in collaborating with psychologists, Eriko has developed a method of somatic thinking through poetry, which, by activating a mutual connection between the internal and external spaces of one’s own body. The workshop has been run in Japan and the UK for various groups of people, including clinical psychologists, school counselors, and people with depression. The feedback from participants was analyzed with thematic-analysis to clarify a psychological function within the method. The somatic thinking of the workshop allows the practitioner to deconstruct traumatic narratives of anxiety and to shape them into new narratives. This project has departed from an examination of the arts-centred education provided by Black Mountain College, an experimental school in North Carolina that provided a nexus for experimental artistic practice in the USA. Being inspired by the philosopher Federico Campagna (2018) talks about vulnerability as an endless possibility for resolution, I explore my own introspective experiences through my art practice in order to discover a ways for how fundamentally an introspective experiences can help others in their healing process. By translating the whole journey into an installation, the audience physically experiences the healing power of poetic thinking in a gallery space. Proposed as symbol.
Description:
This poetry-sculpture installation ‘Crafting Narrative’ invites the audience to experience the healing power of poetic thinking, by following the artist’s own journey of poetic discovery and emotional recovery. Eriko Takeno developed her workshop ‘Sensory Multimodal Workshop; Space as Medium, Poetic Thinking as A tool’, as a way to share with others her own introspective exploration of poetry as a therapy for anxiety. In the workshop, participants are invited to develop a mindful approach to their own perceptions of the physical environment and to communicate their experiences with the rest of the group. The workshop unfolds as a triple process of observation, visualization, and discussion. Working in collaborating with psychologists, Eriko has developed a method of somatic thinking through poetry, which, by activating a mutual connection between the internal and external spaces of one’s own body. The workshop has been run in Japan and the UK for various groups of people, including clinical psychologists, school counselors, and people with depression. The feedback from participants was analyzed with thematic-analysis to clarify a psychological function within the method. The somatic thinking of the workshop allows the practitioner to deconstruct traumatic narratives of anxiety and to shape them into new narratives. This project has departed from an examination of the arts-centred education provided by Black Mountain College, an experimental school in North Carolina that provided a nexus for experimental artistic practice in the USA. Being inspired by the philosopher Federico Campagna (2018) talks about vulnerability as an endless possibility for resolution, I explore my own introspective experiences through my art practice in order to discover a ways for how fundamentally an introspective experiences can help others in their healing process. By translating the whole journey into an installation, the audience physically experiences the healing power of poetic thinking in a gallery space. Proposed as symbol.