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SWS Awards 2024

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

Up to €1000 for first prize!

Details · 2023 winners

Marŝarto Awards 2024

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

Up to €1000 for first prize!

Details · 2023 winners

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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From the center of São Paulo, I walk a circular route to the place in which independence was proclaimed. Like the royal rulers who set foot on Brazilian soil, I return to where I started, traveling through today's Brazil to reflect on its past.

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Walking Piece SWS22

Wanders in the (wild) smart city

Combining song, text and binaural recordings, this sound walk prompts participants to engage with hidden digital processes in the urban landscape. It is geo-located, so through Echoes, sounds are triggered automatically in the walk locations.

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Co-founder of walk · listen · create (United Kingdom)
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walking-with, uncomfortable presence, social justice
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co-founder of walk · listen · create (Belgium)
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If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthy body, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercise the soul; fasting cleanses both.
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