SWS Awards 2024

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

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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 the questions

A 40 day performative walk through northern Spain, wearing a business suit embroidered with other peoples’ question in order to live (into) them, listening to human and none-human beings, making connections, finding and creating new stories.

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Birling Gap

An audio piece about the mythical landscape of Birling Gap – a wild cliffy landscape in East Sussex, UK

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Walking Piece SWS23
London Open Form Pavilion of Air

A floating roof of sound in London, 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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    Stefaan van Biesen

    Award winner SWS Grand Jury 2024
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    Radhika Subramaniam

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    Blake Morris

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    Molly Wagner

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    Richard White

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    Geert Vermeire

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    Christopher Kaczmarek

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    Fred Adam

    Online Jury 2024
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    Guy Debord

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    Henna Wang

    SWS Grand Jury 2024
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    Andrew Stuck

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    Fiona Hesse

    Marŝarto Grand Jury 2023 Marŝarto Grand Jury 2024
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    Clara Gari

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  • Anna Kirk-Smith

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    Kim V. Goldsmith

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