It’s the second edition of our Marŝarto Awards, the only award which recognises the best walking art.
Our amazing Online Jury, drawn from our community of over 1900 contributing walking artists, committed considerable time to reviewing each of this year’s submissions. What’s more, they did so after, just last month, wrapping up the selection of the SWS24 Awards. These are some awesome individuals!
The number of submissions for this year did not reach the heights of our inaugural award. After making a few necessary recategorisations, the counter eventually stuck on 30 submissions. Thankfully, the quality is high, though for the jury, that meant making difficult choices.
We’ve got a shortlist of 13 submissions. Twelve were selected by the jury, and, this year for the first time, we then add the piece with the most votes from the public. This “public’s choice” completes the shortlist.
The origin of the creators of the works on the shortlist is rather heavily slanted to English speaking countries. Thankfully, the list also includes an entry from Argentina, in addition to two from The Netherlands, and one from Switzerland.
Enjoy! Here is the Marŝarto24 shortlist:
- 0.68mi Walk Around a Tree in Maplecrest NY, USA 2024 (Christopher Kaczmarek, US)
- A Place to Return To (Daniella Turbin, UK)
- Billycan Project (Nicole Voevodin-Cash, Australia)
- Fieldwalking – Groundlines (Ruth Broadbent, UK)
- FROM DUST TO STARDUST, a sensorial walk in deep time (Ienke kastelein, Netherlands & Beatrice Khoumeri, France & Peter Schreuder, Switzerland)
- Libations (Louisa Chase, UK)
- PostRhetoric: (A) Discourse on Splintered Wood and Rusted Nails (Scott Lunsford)
- radicant backpack (Maria Jesús Huarte, Argentina)
- Stories of Place, Community & Environment (SPACE) Walk (Kim V. Goldsmith, Australia)
- Sweat Mapping (lerjentours, Switzerland)
- Walk on Fleinvaer (Liesje van den Berk, Netherlands) – public’s choice
- Walking Like a Tortoise (Tamsin Grainger, UK)
- WAP23 Walking as Practice (26 artists)
Next, the shortlist will be reviewed by the Marŝarto Grand Jury, who will meet to discuss each of the pieces as well as deciding on the winner and honourable mention.
Concurrently, the creators of each of the shortlisted pieces are invited to write an article about how they came to make their work, and these will be published, here on WLC, in the coming weeks.
The winner and honourable mention of the Marŝarto Awards 2024 will be announced early in the new year. For the second time, they will walk away with a cash prize. After last year, we have been able to double the prize money; 500 euros for the winner, 200 for the honourable mention.
The height of the cash prize depends on the amount of financial support WLC receives from people like you. We need your support, and would love to push next year’s prize to 1000 euros for the winner.
Help us help you!
Submissions for Marŝarto25 are open. Go for a walk, and create!