SWS Awards 2024

The original award discovering the best soundwalks from all over the world.

Up to €1000 for first prize!

Marŝarto Awards 2024

The first and only award recognising walking art from around the globe.

Up to €1000 for first prize!

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Walking Piece SWS20
False; Flat; Fake – a sound walk by Jorma Kujala

Walking Piece SWS22
Invitation to Walk – Hör-Spiel-Spaziergang ‘Mittelpunkt’ in Berlin/Kreuzberg

The four episodes lead and allure to body-perception experiments while walking. They are intended for individual or collective appropriation of the city - with and through somatics, choreography and artistic research.

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Walking Piece SWS23
Inisheer Open Form Pavilion of Air / Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Inis Oírr

A floating roof of sound on Inisheer, GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app to playfully reframe public space as an essential community engagement. One of 15 in an international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept

Walking Piece SWS21
A High Street Sound Walk on Duke Street, Barrow

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    Richard White

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    Henna Wang

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    Kim V. Goldsmith

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I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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