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!
This event is free for supporting members
The Art of Walking
Our next event: 2024-04-23 18:00
We are delighted to have William Sharpe join us as our Café guest. This time last year, his book on The Art of Walking: a history in 100 images was published to wide acclaim. So how did he come to choose which images best represented the art of walking, and what did he choose to leave out, and why?
We’re doubling the prize money for our awards
Thanks to you, we’ve reached the first goal of our membership program, which means that we are doubling the prize money for our walking arts awards, the Sound Walk September Awards, and the Marŝarto Awards.
Australian Walking Artists goes ‘Way Beyond’
Molly Wagner and Kim Goldsmith talk about the exhibition ‘Way Beyond’, currently running in Sydney, and hosting work from around 20 Australian walking artists.
WALC – a new future of walking arts
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, establishing an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts. The project leans strongly on involving local inhabitants, and on engaging with local activists.
5 misconceptions on walking art
I’ll be mostly preaching to the choir, here. Yet, I might also be giving you a helping hand when, the next time, you are asked what the point of this whole ‘walking art’ business is that you partake in. So, here are five misconceptions on walking art, with explanations as to why they are just
The winners of the Marŝarto23 are…
The winners of Marŝarto23 are Monique Besten and Alison Neighbour, both covering pertinent life questions which affect us all.
Exploring the motor city on foot
The collectives Jalan Gembiro, from Indonesia, and Walkspace, from the UK, came together to explore their cities, Yogyakarta and Birmingham, both primarily designed for cars, on foot.
Stories of place from Regional New South Wales
Australian arts organisation, Orana Arts is partnering with walk · listen · create, to offer a prize in the new writing competition, Neighbourhood Narratives – stories around us. An invitation has been extended to creatives, living and working in Regional New South Wales (NSW), to write about Regional NSW—a region being any town, small city or area that falls beyond the major capital cities.
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Walking Piece SWS23
Head, Hand and Heart
Intended to be used with the Echoes App the walk begins at Maria’s birthplace (1 Vestal St.) and moves through town, to the Wompanaug Stomp Grounds, ocean, and culminates at the Maria Mitchell Gallery at 33 Washington St. Nantucket, USA. It may also be experienced using SoundCloud by clicking the website link.
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Walking Piece SWS23
Struer Open Form Pavilion of Air / Struer Åben Form Pavillon af Luft
A floating roof of sound in Struer, 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.
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