Invisible Flock

For one week only we will be in Basel, hosted by the brilliant ROOM 13 and <wirdnachgereicht> with an exhibition proposing two reflections on one sacred space. Wednesday 17th June - Sunday 21st June <wirdnachgereicht> Feldbergstrasse 40, 4057 Basel Boalno is an immersive sound installation inviting you to reflect on the power and beauty of human-animal reciprocity and our global connection with Arctic lands. Atop a mountain in the Indigenous-governed Sápmi 3,000 reindeer circle around you as nature and centuries of Sámi tradition meet. Boalno was created by Invisible Flock in collaboration with Jenni Laiti and Carl-Johan Utsi. Presented alongside will be Teardrops of Our Grandmother a film by Jenni Laiti and Carl-Johan Utsi. A poetic meditation on the precarity of survival in an endangered world, urging humans to slow down and give nature time to heal. Book your place here; https://lnkd.in/eszX_5kW Image credit Carl-Johan Utsi

We are excited to announce a new project; Carrier Frequencies: Ha’ lem Tana’ lalun a collaboration with the University of Technology Sarawak, the Penan Community in Long Lamai and Orang Ulu Gallery in Miri and takes the form of forest listening and co-creation of two audio/sensory sculptures. We are one of five UK-Malaysia projects supported as part of British Council Malaysia's Human Nature Alternative Narratives grant. Carrier Frequencies: Ha’ lem Tana’ lalun combines creative technology and arts-based practices to listen to Long Lamai Forest. Understanding sound as an analysis of biodiversity and artistic medium by which to hear and speak about change, the project forefronts community-embedded, grassroots approaches to climatic change.

Last week we had the privilege to witness part of the endangered European eel's migration route in the river Tees. Working with Tees Rivers Trust during their weekly elver monitoring. The elvers are currently journeying upstream, after spending 1-2 years in the marine ecosystem, travelling on ocean currents from their birth place in The Sargasso Sea. Once in the river they will grow into adulthood, staying for around 20 years before returning back to the Sargasso to spawn. We were very lucky to document glass eels, whose transparent appearance is an adaptation for survival in marine spaces. Whilst elver monitoring in the Tees takes place between April and November, the glass eels are only visible for a few weeks each year. Their arrival is determined by multiple environmental cues and they are carried upstream by large spring tides. In the autumn, some eels will prepare for migration back to The Sargasso Sea to spawn. The exact triggers for this departure are unknown but are thought to coincide with lower water temperatures, increased river flows that take them out to sea and darker nights to evade predation. This is the start of a new sister project to Voyage, seeking deeper understandings of river heritage and aquatic migration. Jenni Laiti, Tees Rivers Trust

Announcing the next two venues for the 2026 Microtonal UK Tour. Microtonal Faqir Zulfiqar, Allah Jurio, Invisible flock Clay, custom electronics, audio synthesis Lancaster Arts, Peter Scott Gallery (Lancaster Arts) 20th April - 15th May Barnsley Civic (Barnsley Civic - Barnsley Civic Enterprise LTD) 4th - 27th June Microtonal is a sound and sculptural installation exploring the stories, cultures and land that can be found in between the notes of the western chromatic scale. The work is a collaboration between Invisible Flock and the artists standing between it and a form of cultural extinction - Allah Jurio, the only remaining craftsman who makes the borindo and Faqir Zulfiquar, the only known musician to play them. The installation comprises 200 borindos (boreendo) - a clay wind instrument from the desert of Sindh, Pakistan and recently added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding list. Each borindo is brought to life by a small speaker poised just above its opening, tuned to the resonant frequency of their corresponding instrument. It then plays autonomously in response to what is audible in their immediate environment, including audiences and field recordings, creating an ever evolving chorus. Further details on surrounding activity for each venue to follow. Read more on the work here: https://lnkd.in/e6F_3atk #art #soundart #collaboration #sound #borindo #sindh Arts Council England

Exhibitions announcement Thailand 🌱 Life and Land Invisible Flock and Lazy Man Coffee Analogue Photography, Biodevelopers 27, 28 March - Ban Nong Tao Cultural Centre 27 July - 9 August - Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre (BACC) 10 - 24 August - La Lanta Fine Art New Exhibition Life and Land opening in Thailand in collaboration with Warin Lab Nomad. Life and Land uses analogue photography to explore the intersections of climate changes and health in Ban Nong Tao over the course of a year. Using multiple photography processes, and plants that grow on Pgak’yau land as bio-developers, the exhibition explores the interconnectedness of climate change, food sovereignty, land rights and cultural health. Life and Land brings the act of image creation into direct dialogue with its own site, following the Pgak’yau philosophy that everyone has wind, air, fire, soil, rocks, sand, stars, in their body. We are part of those elements. First presented in Ban Nong Tao, the exhibition will travel to Bangkok as part of Warin Lab Nomad’s mission to support mobile, environmentally engaged, and community-rooted artistic practices, activating different sites through context-specific presentation. Image 1. A controlled burn to prepare the soil for planting as part of the Pgak’yau rotational farming process. Image 2. Pgak’yau farmers sitting in the regrowth of same field 9 months later. Life and Land by Lazy Man Coffee (TH) and Invisible Flock (UK) has been developed in partnership with Wellcome and will also be displayed as part of the Wellcome Photography Prize 2027 exhibition in the UK. Wellcome Trust #WPP27 Warin Lab Contemporary

Microtonal Faqir Zulfiqar, Allah Jurio, Invisible flock Clay, custom electronics, audio synthesis Microtonal is now open as part of Signals Festival Rotherham Music Find the installation at Forge Island, Rotherham. 14 and 15 Feb, 11am - 9pm 16 - 22 Feb, 10am - 4pm 23 - 27 Feb, 4 - 6pm Free to experience, What3words: https://lnkd.in/etSFkqXz Utilising bespoke technologies Microtonal is an audio reactive, algorithmically driven installation of 200 borindos (boreendo or bhorindo) - a clay wind instrument from the desert of Sindh, Pakistan and recently added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding list. The installation has two listening states - responding to field recordings of Faqir Zulfiqar playing the borindo, and the second state where individual borindos respond to the ambient sound of the space and audiences in the exhibition. Microtonal presents what is perhaps the largest archive of this unique instrument and explores their sound as a bridge between places and time, finding the tones of the object, moving from dissonance to familiarity, slipping between scales and around the edges of the music they hold in them. Microntal reimagines preservation not as static memory but as a dynamic, collaborative act of cultural resilience. https://lnkd.in/e6F_3atk Photos by JMA Photography #art #soundart #collaboration #borindo #sindh

Microtonal Faqir Zulfiquar, Allah Jurio and Invisible Flock Clay, custom electronics, audio synthesis 14 and 15 Feb, 11am - 9pm 16 - 22 Feb, 10am - 4pm 23 - 27 Feb, 4 - 6pm Signals Festival, Rotherham Microtonal will be at Signals Festival Rotherham Music this February. Find the installation at Forge Island in Rotherham town centre - free to experience. What3words: https://lnkd.in/eVStqxsJ Microtonal is an installation comprising 200 borindos (boreendo) - a clay wind instrument from the desert of Sindh, Pakistan and recently added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding list. The work is a collaboration between Invisible Flock and the artists standing between it and a form of cultural extinction - Allah Jurio, the only remaining craftsman who makes the borindo and Faqir Zulfiquar, the only known musician to play them. Utilising innovative technologies Microtonal is an audio reactive, algorithmically driven installation of 200 borindos. The work amplifies otherwise imperceptible sine waves creating a chorus of these rare instruments playing autonomously. Microtonal explores intangible cultural heritage (as both traditional and living expression), rethinking preservation not as static memory but as a dynamic, collaborative act of cultural resilience. Alongside this there will be a workshop programme for the local community devised by Rotherham based multidisciplinary artist, composer, and theorist, Mark Fell. These will take place on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th February, 4-6pm. Please email music@rotherham.gov.uk to register your interest. Microtonal was originally commissioned for the 2022 Karachi Biennale where it won the Jury Prize. Microtonal is generously supported by an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant. #art #soundart #collaboration #sound #borindo #sindh Arts Council England #rotherhammusic

New work announcement 🌊 Voyage Jenni Laiti and Invisible Flock ~ Video, kinetic sculpture, sound September 11, 2026–March 14, 2027 This September 2026 we will be exhibiting new work Voyage at Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. This exhibition presents two years of actions and documentation of the Salmon crisis taking place in the Deatnu river system. The exhibition becomes a space of witnessing, resistance, and reimagining — affirming the inseparability of river, salmon, and people, and insisting on freedom, justice, and new possible worlds. It takes the form of a series of audio-visual works and a large kinetic sculpture moving in response to the migrating salmon recorded at the Sieiddá dam during the 2025 summer season. It is a collaboration between Jenni Laiti and Invisible Flock together with Ellos Deatnu, Sámi activists, local community and scientists. Voyage is a journey from the end of the world to the next one. It's about us and salmon, grief, survival, decolonisation, climate adaptation and home. Voyage foregrounds Sámi self-determination in the face of ecological crisis and systemic exclusion from decision-making. The work will be presented as part of ‘no beginning, no end: Decolonial Gestures in Sámi Worldbuilding’ Kumu Art Museum September 11, 2026–March 14, 2027 Jenni Laiti Ellos Deatnu #Deatnu #Arctic #Fish #Salmon

Voyage is a journey from the end of the world to the next one. It's about us and salmon, grief, survival, decolonisation, climate adaptation and home. In January 2026, Invisible Flock will welcome collaborator Sámi artist Jenni Laiti to their studio for a residency to continue their work together on new artwork Voyage. Over the last four years, they have collaborated looking to understand experiences of land trauma and solastalgia in Sápmi, the Indigenous-governed area of the Arctic. Through this, they have developed Voyage, a long-term artistic and activist project responding to the decline of native Atlantic salmon and the fragile ecosystems of the Deatnu River. The project takes the form of interventions, community gatherings, sculptural and audio-visual works, foregrounding Sámi self-determination in the face of ecological crisis and systemic exclusion from decision-making. The residency will allow in person progression of the project. Working together physically to test, iterate and move the project into production, leading to planned exhibitions in 2026 onwards. The project has been made possible with support from the Wellcome Trust, Kumu Art Museum, Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, TIDAL ArtS and the VOICE project with support from the Horizon Programme of the European Union. Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland Project link: https://lnkd.in/exvxV8Kd

Join us at the Invisible Flock studio (Longside end of Yorkshire Sculpture Park) on Wednesday 3rd December 5-7.30pm for an intimate workshop-performance, How to Find the Soul of a Sailor with artist Kasia Molga. Tickets are extremely limited, email flock@invisibleflock.com to secure your place. How to Find the Soul of a Sailor is a deeply personal artwork exploring how artificial intelligence can preserve – and give new life to – the memory of a loved one. The immersive hybrid experience examines the past and future of the Mediterranean Sea through the eyes of Kasia Molga's late father, Tadeusz Molga. Kasia invites you to engage in an intimate ritual that connects us with “spirits” formed from localised datasets. The “workshop-performance” utilises a bespoke interactive retrofuture nautical compass, sound, and Molga's pre-trained AI model. Participants will be able to pose questions about the future of our climate and oceans, or any topic that feels meaningful in this context. This project raises critical questions about the ethics of AI in art and cultural practice, climate communication and ancestral memories, digital afterlife, the use of small datasets, and how these tools are used in storytelling.