The winners of Marŝarto23 are Monique Besten and Alison Neighbour, both covering pertinent life questions which affect us all.

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.

Yannis Ziogas embarked on a 138-kilometer walking odyssey through Greek landscapes, chronicling the experience in "Crossing the Limits..." This journey led to self-exploration and the creation of a "Walking Tale," a poem of curiosities.

Janice Jensen's "walkingwhiledrawing" project explores the subjective perception of moving through the environment. Using a drawing machine, she records her movements while walking to create linear documentation and virtual landscapes in VR. The ongoing project has been displayed in various exhibitions and is set to expand with new landscapes and multimedia elements.

Jenny Staff hosted the "Invisible to Visible" workshop, transformed into a video recording by Kel Portman. The work symbolizes Jenny's transformative pilgrimage in Lancashire, aiming to reconnect with herself and her surroundings. The piece involves collaborative walking, drawing, poetry, and meditation, culminating in a powerful and reflective experience.

The walking piece TRACE: A Remote Geography of the Mind, is a collaboration between Christopher Kaczmarek and Deirdre Macleod, and it explores how we can create new geographies of the mind by collaboratively exploring our local environments, slowly.

For Walking the questions, Monique Besten went on a walk from Barcelona to Galicia, to be able to answer questions by living them. This walking piece is one of the shortlisted pieces in the Marŝarto Awards 2023. Here, Monique discusses her work. What is my territory? What is yours? What does belonging mean? What do you truly own? Where is the

Sonia Overall explores the relationship of the Kentish Hoodening custom to the landscape of its origin through walking and embodied experience, spoken word.

Babak Fakhamzadeh's installation piece, "In which I go for a walk," is displayed inside a shipping container. The immersive work features looped videos of the artist walking from Brazil to northern Sweden, encapsulating a sense of voyeurism and public space awareness. It also aims to entertain, offering a multi-layered experience for viewers.

Rachel Epp Buller's "One Hundred Days of Walking" reflects a daily practice, implemented in Alberta, Canada. As an artist trained in Deep Listening, Buller uses walking as a form of attentive exploration.

Roelant Meijer's "Walking in Circles" is set in the Rub’ al Khali desert. Meijer intentionally walks a 3.7km circle over seven days, reflecting on the concept of getting lost, the imperfections of life, and the philosophical questions surrounding our existence.

"SCHRITTWEISE" by Katja Münker is a performance-intervention, using choreography and walking to engage with city environments and create performative walks. It combines physical performances with an audio-guide and a research toolkit available online. The project aims to establish a collective aesthetic space and invites individuals to interpret and co-create within the provided framework, reaching beyond social and physical boundaries imposed by COVID-19.

With The (Future) Wales Coast Path, Alison Neighbour, through a cooperation between Wales and India, Alison Neighbour seeks to raise awareness of the impermanence of the land many of us take for granted, and to open up a local and global conversation about flooding, sea level rise, and adaptation. This walking piece is one of the shortlisted

It's the announcement of the Marŝarto Awards 2023 shortlist!

We are excited to introduce a cash prize of up to 1000 euros for winners of our awards.

With the start of the season, and opening submissions for the SWS and Marŝarto Awards, we highlight existing and new members of the juries.

We are happy and excited to announce the creation of the Marŝarto Awards, recognising walking art from all over the world.