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It’s the winners of Marŝarto25
The Marŝarto25 shortlist reflected a wide and compelling field of walking practices, demonstrating how walking continues to operate as a critical, poetic, and socially embedded artistic method. Across a range of geographies, durations, and intentions, the shortlisted works shared an understanding of walking as a way of thinking with the world: attentive to landscape, community,
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+3 The river has desire lines
Penny Walker, 2026 story writer-in-residence, who invites you discover where a river might flow River Pant, Essex. 2 miles 13th January 2026 Seven of us and a dog walked down the track, watching for the flow and rise of water under our boots. We had detailed LIDAR maps from official agencies of the river’s current
Drawing Walks and Intervals
Joe Richardson explores how walking and drawing activate shifts between roles and selves in Drawing Walks and Intervals as Activation Devices.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, Joe reflects on the work. Moving between roles Many contemporary artists will relate to feeling that they are constantly required to move between different roles and identities, switching headspaces,
Spaziergang On An Empty Canvas
Soda Paapi created an ambient documentary featuring Toronto, a ‘walking video’ called 40 Nights in Toronto, where he realised that, sometimes, instead of thinking we need to escape, all we need is a different perspective.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he is interviewed about the work. In April 2024, Soda Paapi flew from Berlin to
Walking, Mapping, and the Plurality of Place
Christopher Kaczmarek hosted a walkshop at WAC25 called Drawing Cartographies of Perception, exploring the personal and subjective nature of navigation and cartography and the diverse ways people perceive and move through space.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. A map is never a place. It is a translation, an abstraction,
•Announcing the winners of SWS25
It’s been an absolute joy to explore this year’s submissions for the Sound Walk September Awards. Speaking on behalf of the Grand Jury, it wasn’t easy to pick which pieces stood out just a tad more in the field that was this year’s shortlist. But, using cold, hard, mathematics, the numbers didn’t lie, and were
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+2 Of Lines, Time, and Inefficient Gaits
Carlos ‘Luca’ Idrobo produced Love Letters to Walking Art and Science, a cumulative piece that honours pivotal artistic and scientific works focused on walking as both motif and practice, combining photography, drawing, light-drawings, performance, and land art.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. Walking a line has been standard practice
Walking a Contemporary Valley Section
Claudia Zeiske walked From Mountain to Sea, a 220km walk through Aberdeenshire, and a COVID-19 commemoration walk, marked by benches, music, an embroidered tablecloth, illustrated map, and film.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. Over two years, I walked from mountain to sea forth and back across Aberdeenshire in the
•Walking a Meadow: Cultivating Collective Attention
Laura Reeder walked with local youth and neighbors over two underused lawns in the City of Syracuse, NY. The walks turned undervalued public fields into living drawings, exploring how walking in public space connects ecology, safety, and community.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. My year as resident artist with
How did ferns, rocks and 1,000 km become a film?
Dario Laganà went on a 1000 km walk in Norway, and produced the short film Like a Fern Between Rocks, documenting this solitary, nomadic experience. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Dario earlier wrote about his experience in A loud solitude, and goes deeper into his experience, below. All of my
Echoes in the Fog: A Soundwalk from Moss to Jeløy
Brona Martin created MOSS – Mapping Otherworldly Soundscapes, an investigation and celebration of sound and an exploration of the relations between the natural and cultural worlds of Moss, Norway. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Brona discusses the piece. Often our first introduction to a new environment is experienced through
Sounds of Home
Galen Koch, with Celia Morton and Annika Ross, created The First Coast’s Stonington Soundwalk, taking the listener on a walk past old sardine factories and music halls, neighborhoods and town piers, featuring the stories of local residents, both past and present. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Galen reflects on
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The Year of Walking Dangerously
Given the current insane state of international affairs, a pleasant breeze of calm is our announcement of the winners of Marŝarto25, the award which recognises the best walking art (excluding sound walks, of course). For the 2025 Grand Jury, it was almost a tossup between the top two shortlisted pieces, while both noticeably set themselves
•Peace in motion
The Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh wrote that most of us walk as if we are running, “printing anxiety and sorrow on the Earth.” To walk mindfully, he says, is to leave another trace entirely: peace, solidity, care. Walking meditation is not symbolic. Each step is the practice itself – a way of training attention,
•Epiphany in Motion: Walking and Learning
Epiphany is often understood as a moment of sudden revelation. Yet in its deeper sense, Epiphany is not instant clarity, but recognition that unfolds through movement. In the biblical narrative, understanding does not arrive at the point of departure; it emerges retrospectively — after walking, after detour, after attention and care. This understanding of Epiphany
•The Other Place
There’s always been a rivalry between Cambridge and Oxford Universities, best known in the boat race that happens every Easter time on the Thames, but it’s there also in politics, scholarship, theatre, medical and scientific discovery and every sport and pastime you can imagine. I knocked around in Cambridge for three years in my twenties,
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Latest walking pieces
Strata-Walks
Strata-Walks is an interdisciplinary walking series by the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit that uses stratigraphy to explore layered landscapes. Through guided, participatory walks, it transforms walking into public pedagogy, mapping social, sensory, and historical place-based knowledge.
Circular Walk inside Arctic Circle, Around Inuvik, N.W.T.
N.E. Thing Co.’s Arctic walk in Inuvik documented steps, distance, and circular movement, while the Baxters transformed maps with instructions and drawings, turning abstract space into lived, dynamic landscapes that challenged rationalized grids and static representations.
Walk 2
Walk 2 (Margate, 2010) had 200 participants walk in silence atop the Marine Bathing Pool wall, maintaining one-metre spacing. Exposed to wind and cold, the walk demanded focus and discipline, fostering a meditative, trance-like awareness of body, rhythm, and environment.
Effugio c, you’re always only half a day away
The artist circles his Finnish home for 12 hours, running 65 miles. The repetitive loop is filmed in HD and exhibited as a 12-hour performance, turning endurance into futility and contrasting modern travel’s reach within half a day.
Roadstains Projects
Michael x. Ryan’s Roadstain projects capture urban traces of stains on streets and sidewalks. Through large-scale wood reliefs and small drawings, he reimagines these marks, creating an archive of memory and place, sensitive to the built environment and human movement.
Walking 9-5 Series
Danica Phelps’ Walking 9–5 turns the eight-hour workday into a walking measure. She walks eight hours daily, documenting routes and daily expenses through drawings. Each work records money spent/earned, and sold pieces are replaced by traced copies with sale details.
Notable events
Because the streets belong to everyone
Morag Rose, author of the widely acclaimed The Feminist Art of Walking will be joined in conversation with author and poet Polly Atkin for our first Walking Writers Salon on 2026. For over 20 years Morag Rose has been seeking company, undertaking a wide range of explorative wanders on foot through her home city of
•Everybody out and about – creative ways to make that happen
Too easy to make the assumption that everyone can walk – surely it is the most human thing we humans can do? However, not everyone has the privilege of the sensorial able-bodied. Often overlooked in event planning or in creative compositions, yet frequently made to feel as if in the spotlight, an unintended public performer,
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•Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course
The Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course invites you from March 2026 on into the artistic practice of walking arts. Designed for artists, creators, educators, cultural workers, and innovators, the course explores walking not simply as a theme, but as a method of learning, creating, and relating. This is not about learning about walking. It is about walking as learning.
•The Walking Assembly 2026 – online information session
Walking Arts and Relational Geographies evolves this year into The Walking Assembly. The name itself reflects a shift toward a more horizontal form of gathering, where everyone has an essential role to play. For the Walking Assembly, there will be no academic papers or independent workshop proposals; instead, participation is grounded in shared presence, contribution,
•WALC Confluence 12-WALC Walking Arts Course & Exploring the Experience of Migrating
« El Laboratorio » -a Franco-Chilian-Mexican exploration in connection with the creation of Migrating Voices. Developed by La Constellation Gigacircus within WALC (Walking Arts & Local Communities), Migrating Voices is an art project in progress that explores exile, migration, and remote human presence. « Exploring how we maintain emotional ties with our loved ones through smartphones and video communication
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•The Feminist Art of Walking Online
An online gathering to celebrate The Feminist Art of Walking, includes contributions from special guests featured in the book of the same title by Morag Rose. Special guests include some of the wonderful walking artists featured in the book. Alisa Oleva, Cathy Turner, Clare Qualmann, Dee Heddon, Elspeth “Billie” Penfold and Helen Stratford will be
The Walking Assembly 2026
he Walking Assembly 2026 (9–13 May 2026) is a nomadic, field-based gathering in Catalonia for artists, researchers, educators, and collectives interested in walking as a form of embodied, relational, and ecological knowledge.
As a continuation of the biannual “Walking Arts and Relational Geographies” conferences, in collaboration with Made of Walking and other partners, it marks a shift from conference to assembly, proposing learning without teaching—where knowledge arises through shared walking, presence, attention, and collective experience.
Beginning with a public Confluence in Salt (Girona), featuring a conversation with Tim Ingold, and continuing as a four-day walking expedition based in Albanyà, the Assembly follows the Muga River as both material guide and metaphor. Water, movement, and being together in place shape an experimental pedagogy grounded in care, reciprocity, and co-creation.
•Walking Arts Forum walk listen create
Annemarie Lopez, walking writer, curator, and digital storyteller, presents the work of walk · listen · create, an international platform exploring walking as a creative practice through events, residencies, and collaborative arts projects.
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Everybody out and about – creative ways to make that happen
Too easy to make the assumption that everyone can walk – surely it is the most human thing we humans can do? However, not everyone has the privilege of the sensorial able-bodied. Often overlooked in event planning or in creative compositions, yet frequently made to feel as if in the spotlight, an unintended public performer,
News of WALC
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course
•The Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course invites you from March 2026 on into the artistic practice of walking arts. Designed for artists, creators, educators, cultural workers, and innovators, the course explores walking not simply as a theme, but as a method of learning, creating, and relating. This is not about learning about walking. It is about walking as learning.
On the politics of walking
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+1 On August 26, Babak Fakhamzadeh of walk · listen · create and Mary Marinopoulou of Action Synergy, as part of the 4-year project Walking Arts and Local Communities, hosted the online event Politics of Walking: Grief, Solidarity and Resistance, bringing together four artists and activists; Nohad ElHajj, Marta Moreno Muñoz, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, and Tom Jeffreys. What followed was a profound dialogue on walking as a political and embodied act in the face of violence, injustice, and systemic disconnection.
The Forest That Followed the Lake: Julian Hoffman’s path to Prespa’s shores
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Walking offered what conversation could not yet provide: a way in, a way to begin to belong.
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Long Walks
•WHY GO FOR A WALK? Not to get anywhere; the lack of destination makes it a walk rather than a journey. But a walk is never aimless; you set limits… Source: Long Walks
You Are [Always] in Native Space: Grappling with Legacies of Colonization Through Sound – Art Journal Open
•A collaboration between a tribal elder and an artist descended from first colonizers Source: You Are [Always] in Native Space: Grappling with Legacies of Colonization Through Sound – Art Journal Open
A Walk Around Old Ford, East London, In The Late 20th Century – Flashbak
•In the 1980s, Peter Marshall was in Old Ford, taking a walk in what is now the London borough of Tower Hamlets. Source: A Walk Around Old Ford, East London, In The Late 20th Century – Flashbak
Talking with Tony Smith
•The sculptor-painter-architect, Tony Smith, born in South Orange, New Jersey in 1912, is one of the best-known unknowns in American art. Most people involved in the art world around New… Source: Talking with Tony Smith
Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour | London holidays | The Guardian
•The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago Source: Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour | London holidays | The Guardian
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Pathways of knowing
In this poetic photo essay, Emma Plover walks with edges, inviting the reader to step into closer relationship with their everyday journeys and environments.
Trames blanches, des artistes et des aménageurs
Une trame blanche est une trame écologique, urbaine ou non, s’inscrivant dans la famille des corridors écologiques, caractérisée par une ou des continuités proposant des ambiances acoustiques qualitatives et apaisées. Elle repose notamment sur les travaux en écologie acoustique, bioacoustique, écoacoustique, et met l’accent sur l’influence du paysage sonore sur la faune et la flore, […]
