Submissions are invited for Walking Art for the Marsarto Awards 2023 by Walk Listen Create. Submit your entries by October 31, 2023!

What is Walking Art?

According to Wikipedia, “Walking Art is the act of walking as an artistic practice. It ‘has gathered practitioners from nearly every field […and] blurs the borders between the arts, between artist and audience’. While walking artists have diverse interests and backgrounds, many scholars have foregrounded the way it explores the connections between the mind and body, as well as space and time. Some artists consider walking an artistic end in itself, while others use walking as a means of mark-making, storytelling, social practice, or creating work in other artistic media. Despite emerging from a variety of artistic and literary traditions, a ‘common feature [of walking art] is the engagement of the body in a process of walking through a landscape based on a specific artistic design.”

About Walk Listen Create

WLC was officially founded in 2021 as an NGO in Belgium, but we came together in 2019, around the implementation of the first Sound Walk September, itself a consequence of Sound Walk Sunday 2017.

About the Marsarto Awards

The Marŝarto Awards recognise exceptional walking art created in the previous year. The Awards culminate in October, coinciding with Walktober, the global call to promote walking as a creative experience.

Any walking piece created during the previous 12 months, after the end of the previous year’s October, and submitted to the walk · listen · create website, is eligible. Soundwalks are not eligible. For these fine works, we host the Sound Walk September Awards.

Work can include a variety of formats, approaches, and subjects, from a wide range of creative disciplines, including arts, heritage and history, health and wellbeing, social practices, journalism, performance, literature and theatre, ecology, tourism, and more.

Prizes

Winners walk away with a Cash Prize of up to 1,000 euros (Rs. 89k+).

Walking art that makes it to the shortlist gets bragging rights. Winners and honourable mentions receive a physical award. In addition, winners receive a cash prize of 250 euros (Rs. 22k+), and honourable mentions receive a cash prize of 100 euros (Rs. 9k).

They facilitate a membership program, which operates like a crowdfunding campaign. When they reach certain thresholds in support, the cash prize for winners can grow to 1,000 euros (Rs. 89k+), with the cash prize for honourable mentions can grow to 400 euros (Rs. 35k+). Check out their membership program today.

Selection Process

From the body of submitted work, an Online Jury abstracts a short list of walking pieces, which is announced soon after the end of October. From this shortlist, the Grand Jury chooses the winners of the Marŝarto Awards, based on a collaboratively defined set of criteria.

Who are the members of the juries? Check them out.

How to Submit Entries?

Check out their archives, where you will find a ‘Submit’ button, or head over to the submission form straight away.

You will need to register and log in to submit.

Click here to read the official notification of the Call for Walking Art: Marsarto Awards 2023 by Walk Listen Create [Cash Prizes of Rs. 90k].