We recently broke 800 entries in our online archive of walking pieces, covering a period of some 60 years, with work from all over the world.
We’re getting closer to September, with the end of that month being the deadline for submitting your work for this year’s Sound Walk September Awards. This is followed by, at the end of October, the submission deadline for the Marŝarto Awards. We’re very keen to see what you’ve been working on, this year.
Meanwhile, we will make an effort to expand our archives by including historically relevant pieces from years, sometimes decades, past. In fact, we are looking to include hundreds of older pieces, with the objective of creating a comprehensive archive of walking pieces, the canonical source of walking art, if you will.
We’re looking for help with this.
If this is something that sounds of interest to you, give us a shout. You can see the project description over at Goodsted. You can apply there, or you can contact us directly. Note that if you apply via Goodsted, we’ve found that they’re not very good at sending you notifications of new responses to your messages. So, if you do apply via Goodsted, keep checking for our responses.
The backlog of pieces that we are keen to include in our archives come from two sources. The first is a collection of work that was cobbled together by our walking detectives. The second is a collection put together by Ellie Mueller, for her classes on walking as an artistic practice.
Some of you are already waiting in the wings to start, which is awesome. And, as many hands make light work, we hope you are interested, too.