Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
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A heartfelt thank you to all artists and creatives who submitted their powerful works for this year’s Social Art Award under the theme: “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Your inspiring visions speak to ocean restoration, biodiversity, and reimagining our coexistence with all life forms on Earth.
After receiving 922 submissions from across all continents, and concluding a very active public voting phase, the Social Art Award now enters its next chapter:
🔹 What’s next?
The professional jury panel is currently reviewing and selecting the TOP 100 entries that will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 book. In parallel, the two public voting winners will move forward as wildcards into the final jury round.
🔹 Coming up:
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Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
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Winners of the Social Art Award 2025 will be revealed at our Online Award Ceremony on July 2, 2025.
We invite you to stay connected as we celebrate the power of Social Art to drive dialogue, awareness, and collective transformation.
Let’s continue to amplify art as a force for Planetary Healing.
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Communication
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Title:
Communication
Communication
Author:
Annie Goliath
Annie Goliath
Description:
PROJECT: NEW BEGINNINGS EXPLORED THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION This project consists of an artist’s film and an accompanying symposium and workshops. The image is a film still taken from the artist’s film Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish (2025) Synopsis of my Artist’s Film: https://vimeo.com/949665126?share=copy In the year 2054, marine ecologist Sophia investigates a mysterious mass die-off of cuttlefish along the coasts of England and Ireland but is unable to solve the crisis alone. Turning to her Irish friend Muireann, a follower of the ECO-POETIC-PSYCHISM movement that merges philosophy of mind, ecology and the arts, they seek a solution through combining scientific research with ancient Celtic and modern Irish Neo-Shamanic practices. Muireann performs a shamanic ritual, entering an altered state to communicate with the cuttlefish, uncovering a deeper connection between the creature’s suffering and the broader environmental impacts of climate change. Through an empathic dialogue between the human and more-than-human worlds, the film explores the intersection of science, spirituality, and ecological crisis, highlighting the urgent need for a holistic approach to environmental restoration. Methodology I used the genre of critical science fiction and the creative methodologies of entangled filmmaking, improvisation, and poetry. The entangled filmmaking process was an intuitive approach—listening, breathing, feeling, and improvising movement while filming—to co-create with the performer. The responsive film score and edit embraced improvisation. The poetic lines were an attempt to imagine this empathic dialogue, striving to re-establish respectful connections infused with wonder, reciprocity and care. Accompanying Symposium and Workshop How can diverse new beginnings be imagined through speculative fiction? What would a new worldview built on the principles of inclusivity, care, activism or belonging with more-than-human beings look like? In what way can film be a language of new beginnings based on reciprocity and resilience in the face of adversity? The symposium featured a panel session with speakers Professor Joanna Callaghan, Kam Meakin, Riziki Millanzi, and Annie Goliath, each presenting their unique insights on creating new worldviews based on inclusivity, care, activism, reciprocity and resilience. Annie Goliath screened her artist's film The Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish (2024). Additionally, attendees had the opportunity to participate in a workshop led by Annie Goliath (facilitated by the performer Sophie Page Hall and the composer Black Astronaut), during which they were invited to envision speculative utopias through co-created creative writing, mask-making, and movement that culminated in a final performance.
PROJECT: NEW BEGINNINGS EXPLORED THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION This project consists of an artist’s film and an accompanying symposium and workshops. The image is a film still taken from the artist’s film Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish (2025) Synopsis of my Artist’s Film: https://vimeo.com/949665126?share=copy In the year 2054, marine ecologist Sophia investigates a mysterious mass die-off of cuttlefish along the coasts of England and Ireland but is unable to solve the crisis alone. Turning to her Irish friend Muireann, a follower of the ECO-POETIC-PSYCHISM movement that merges philosophy of mind, ecology and the arts, they seek a solution through combining scientific research with ancient Celtic and modern Irish Neo-Shamanic practices. Muireann performs a shamanic ritual, entering an altered state to communicate with the cuttlefish, uncovering a deeper connection between the creature’s suffering and the broader environmental impacts of climate change. Through an empathic dialogue between the human and more-than-human worlds, the film explores the intersection of science, spirituality, and ecological crisis, highlighting the urgent need for a holistic approach to environmental restoration. Methodology I used the genre of critical science fiction and the creative methodologies of entangled filmmaking, improvisation, and poetry. The entangled filmmaking process was an intuitive approach—listening, breathing, feeling, and improvising movement while filming—to co-create with the performer. The responsive film score and edit embraced improvisation. The poetic lines were an attempt to imagine this empathic dialogue, striving to re-establish respectful connections infused with wonder, reciprocity and care. Accompanying Symposium and Workshop How can diverse new beginnings be imagined through speculative fiction? What would a new worldview built on the principles of inclusivity, care, activism or belonging with more-than-human beings look like? In what way can film be a language of new beginnings based on reciprocity and resilience in the face of adversity? The symposium featured a panel session with speakers Professor Joanna Callaghan, Kam Meakin, Riziki Millanzi, and Annie Goliath, each presenting their unique insights on creating new worldviews based on inclusivity, care, activism, reciprocity and resilience. Annie Goliath screened her artist's film The Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish (2024). Additionally, attendees had the opportunity to participate in a workshop led by Annie Goliath (facilitated by the performer Sophie Page Hall and the composer Black Astronaut), during which they were invited to envision speculative utopias through co-created creative writing, mask-making, and movement that culminated in a final performance.
Description:
PROJECT: NEW BEGINNINGS EXPLORED THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION This project consists of an artist’s film and an accompanying symposium and workshops. The image is a film still taken from the artist’s film Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish (2025) Synopsis of my Artist’s Film: https://vimeo.com/949665126?share=copy In the year 2054, marine ecologist Sophia investigates a mysterious mass die-off of cuttlefish along the coasts of England and Ireland but is unable to solve the crisis alone. Turning to her Irish friend Muireann, a follower of the ECO-POETIC-PSYCHISM movement that merges philosophy of mind, ecology and the arts, they seek a solution through combining scientific research with ancient Celtic and modern Irish Neo-Shamanic practices. Muireann performs a shamanic ritual, entering an altered state to communicate with the cuttlefish, uncovering a deeper connection between the creature’s suffering and the broader environmental impacts of climate change. Through an empathic dialogue between the human and more-than-human worlds, the film explores the intersection of science, spirituality, and ecological crisis, highlighting the urgent need for a holistic approach to environmental restoration. Methodology I used the genre of critical science fiction and the creative methodologies of entangled filmmaking, improvisation, and poetry. The entangled filmmaking process was an intuitive approach—listening, breathing, feeling, and improvising movement while filming—to co-create with the performer. The responsive film score and edit embraced improvisation. The poetic lines were an attempt to imagine this empathic dialogue, striving to re-establish respectful connections infused with wonder, reciprocity and care. Accompanying Symposium and Workshop How can diverse new beginnings be imagined through speculative fiction? What would a new worldview built on the principles of inclusivity, care, activism or belonging with more-than-human beings look like? In what way can film be a language of new beginnings based on reciprocity and resilience in the face of adversity? The symposium featured a panel session with speakers Professor Joanna Callaghan, Kam Meakin, Riziki Millanzi, and Annie Goliath, each presenting their unique insights on creating new worldviews based on inclusivity, care, activism, reciprocity and resilience. Annie Goliath screened her artist's film The Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish (2024). Additionally, attendees had the opportunity to participate in a workshop led by Annie Goliath (facilitated by the performer Sophie Page Hall and the composer Black Astronaut), during which they were invited to envision speculative utopias through co-created creative writing, mask-making, and movement that culminated in a final performance.
PROJECT: NEW BEGINNINGS EXPLORED THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION This project consists of an artist’s film and an accompanying symposium and workshops. The image is a film still taken from the artist’s film Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish (2025) Synopsis of my Artist’s Film: https://vimeo.com/949665126?share=copy In the year 2054, marine ecologist Sophia investigates a mysterious mass die-off of cuttlefish along the coasts of England and Ireland but is unable to solve the crisis alone. Turning to her Irish friend Muireann, a follower of the ECO-POETIC-PSYCHISM movement that merges philosophy of mind, ecology and the arts, they seek a solution through combining scientific research with ancient Celtic and modern Irish Neo-Shamanic practices. Muireann performs a shamanic ritual, entering an altered state to communicate with the cuttlefish, uncovering a deeper connection between the creature’s suffering and the broader environmental impacts of climate change. Through an empathic dialogue between the human and more-than-human worlds, the film explores the intersection of science, spirituality, and ecological crisis, highlighting the urgent need for a holistic approach to environmental restoration. Methodology I used the genre of critical science fiction and the creative methodologies of entangled filmmaking, improvisation, and poetry. The entangled filmmaking process was an intuitive approach—listening, breathing, feeling, and improvising movement while filming—to co-create with the performer. The responsive film score and edit embraced improvisation. The poetic lines were an attempt to imagine this empathic dialogue, striving to re-establish respectful connections infused with wonder, reciprocity and care. Accompanying Symposium and Workshop How can diverse new beginnings be imagined through speculative fiction? What would a new worldview built on the principles of inclusivity, care, activism or belonging with more-than-human beings look like? In what way can film be a language of new beginnings based on reciprocity and resilience in the face of adversity? The symposium featured a panel session with speakers Professor Joanna Callaghan, Kam Meakin, Riziki Millanzi, and Annie Goliath, each presenting their unique insights on creating new worldviews based on inclusivity, care, activism, reciprocity and resilience. Annie Goliath screened her artist's film The Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish (2024). Additionally, attendees had the opportunity to participate in a workshop led by Annie Goliath (facilitated by the performer Sophie Page Hall and the composer Black Astronaut), during which they were invited to envision speculative utopias through co-created creative writing, mask-making, and movement that culminated in a final performance.