About this Event
The Shortest Night Stroll
This year's Shortest Night Stroll guides walkers from the city of Zurich to Lake Pfäffikon in the Zurich Oberland. The walk begins at sunset and ends at sunrise, lasting 8 hours and 5 minutes, occupying the duration of the shortest night of the year in Zurich. Participants choose their own starting point in the city. Each participant is invited to wear sunglasses for the entire walk in order to recognise each other throughout the night. The walk ends with a group swim in Lake Pfäffikon at dawn.
San Keller
As an ‘artist artist’, San Keller takes on various roles and positions in the art world with a great deal of scepticism, self-irony and energy. What others don't do, he popularises. A questioner who provides simple answers. San knows no opening hours. Everything is there, anytime and anywhere. He relentlessly acclimatises us to the familiar. A master of real time, of imponderables and a romantic who believes in freedom in the existing.
The Walking Festival of Sound
Walking Festival of Sound is a transdisciplinary event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free and public events including walking performances, walking seminars and listening sessions, all taking place in diverse public spaces and online. Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for the international network of practitioners and researchers interested in sound and walking. Through diverse events we explore how walking and listening practices can augment and challenge the way we perceive, navigate through, and care for our shared environments. In 2019 the festival took place in two cities, Stockholm, Sweden and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. In April 2021, the festival moved to Krakow, Poland and Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2022, the festival visited Seoul, Korea and Vancouver, Canada. Zurich, Switzerland, is the festival's site in 2024.
The festival was founded and is directed by Jacek Smolicki and Tim Shaw.
This year's festival is supported by the Collegium Helveticum.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Zürich, Switzerland
GBP 0.00
