Invisible Flock

19/03/2026

Microtonal
Faqir Zulfiqar, Allah Jurio, Invisible flock
Clay, custom electronics, audio synthesis

Announcing the next two venues for the 2026 Microtonal UK Tour.

Lancaster Arts, Peter Scott Gallery
20th April - 15th May

Barnsley Civic
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.

https://invisibleflock.com/projects/microtonal

Arts Council England

16/02/2026

Exhibition announcement Thailand 🌱

Life and Land
Invisible Flock and Lazy Man Coffee
Analogue Photography, Biodevelopers

27, 28 March - Ban Nong Tao Cultural Center

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.

14/02/2026

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: ///plan.cried.bike

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://invisibleflock.com/projects/microtonal

Photos by JMA Photography

27/01/2026

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://w3w.co/plan.cried.bike

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 [email protected] 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.

Arts Council England

19/01/2026

New work announcement 🌊

Voyage
Jenni Laiti and Invisible Flock
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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 September 11, 2026–March 14, 2027

Jenni Laiti Ellos Deatnu

13/01/2026

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

19/12/2025

As we bring 2025 to a close in the studio we want to say thank you to all our collaborators, friends, audiences, residents and fellow artists.

It was a bit of a depth year for us at the studio and we managed to spend more time here in Yorkshire developing new and revisiting old work, developing techniques and ideas.

We will be exhibiting a great deal around the UK next year (more details in Jan) as well as premiering a major new piece in Europe and Thailand. Hopefully see you at one or all of those.

Beyond our studio and personal moments of light, 2025 was a year full of violence and darkness globally. We continue as artists to try and meet this head on, to make art that tells better stories, examines the faults in the systems that are built around us and work with others to build better ways of being. We are as always influenced and humbled by friends and peers in our field and beyond and hope everyone finds a moment of rest and regroup. See you in 2026.

Sous les pavés, la plage.

18/11/2025

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 [email protected] 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.

11/11/2025

This month Rotherham artist Uzma Rani begins a residency with us at our studio at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Uzma’s practice evolves in the spaces between memory and conversation, weaving colour, calligraphy, and community into living stories that travel between cultures and generations. She combines abstract impressionism and multilingual calligraphy with research and participatory methods, creating work that is both visually expressive and socially engaged.

She will be working with us from now until the end of the year, with a focus on early-stage creative research while engaging with Rotherham’s cultural context. Exploring access to the laser cutter, sound equipment, and digital tools, to develop new ways of translating archival stories and calligraphic forms into immersive, multi-sensory works.

The residency is supported by Clifton Park Museum Rotherham Museums, Arts and Heritage.

Arts Council England

14/10/2025

Our new work Voyage has been selected as one of TidalArts Lighthouse projects.

‘The problem is, that what is happening in the river, it happens out of view, it is almost impossible to see or perceive, so people aren’t aware of what climate change is doing. How can you adapt when you don’t know the circumstances for adaptation?’

Voyage is a long-term artistic and activist project responding to the decline of native Atlantic salmon and the fragile ecosystems of the Deatnu River. A collaboration between Jenni Laiti and ourselves together with Sámi activists Ellos Deatnu, local communities and scientists, the project foregrounds Sámi self-determination in the face of ecological crisis and systemic exclusion from decision-making.

As part of TidalArts we will co-create a film – depicting the situation from three perspectives; the river, the community and the salmon, created from extensive research data and documentation. It will be developed through a series of Indigenous-led workshops with Deatnu River communities, fisherpeople and scientists, and shared back at a community art space in Sápmi, marking the start of a regional and international tour.

The film will form part of an immersive, audio-visual and sculptural exhibition, to be completed and presented post June 2026.

TidalArts Lighthouse project is designed to engage communities across Europe in creative endeavours to protect and restore our marine and freshwater ecosystems.

Jenni Laiti Ellos Deatnu TidalArts

07/10/2025

We are thrilled to share that we have received news of a successful ACE application to tour our award winning installation Microtonal to Northern audiences across 4 venues in 2026.

All of the world’s problems are derived from a lack of listening - Ustad Naseeruddin Saami

Microtonal is an installation comprising 200 borindos - a clay wind instrument from the desert of Sindh, Pakistan. The work is a collaboration with 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 200 rare instruments playing autonomously. Microtonal explores intangible cultural heritage (as both traditional and living expression) , live knowledge transmissions, and intercultural dialogue.

Further details around partners, venues, dates and surrounding activity to be confirmed and released. Discover more about Microtonal here: https://invisibleflock.com/projects/microtonal

Arts Council England

11/09/2025

The deadline for our paid residency is a week tomorrow, Friday 19th September. We and Clifton Park Museum are looking for an artist or collective based in Rotherham or with a connection to its stories, communities or place, to join us for a residency at our studio this winter.

Full details can be found here: https://invisibleflock.com/residencies

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY - PAID RESIDENCY

We and Clifton Park Museum are looking for an artist or collective based in Rotherham or with a connection to its stories, communities or place, to join us for a residency at our studio this winter.

We are seeking artists with an interest in developing their artistic practice through the exploration and access to the equipment and facilities we have in our studio Yorkshire Sculpture Park

These interests may include but are not exclusive to, all types of fabrication, digital art, sound recording, film and photography, computer imaging, bio-arts cultivation and development. The residency is to take place across 16 days from late October to mid December 2025.

Our studio at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park comes fully equipped with the Bio-Arts-Lab, a fabrication workshop, an electronics lab and space to test and iterate with sound and AV.

In terms of equipment, we have extensive sound recording tools, LiDAR scanners, a large scale CNC, a laser cutter, 3D printer, a small kiln, a full host of lab equipment, a wide variety of computing options and access to licences for software.

For full details and how to apply, follow this link: https://invisibleflock.com/residencies

In support of the call out we will also be hosting a studio tour to welcome interested applicants into the space, ask questions and gain further insight. This will take place on Tuesday 2nd September 2pm-3pm at the studio. Please email [email protected] to join us.

This residency has been supported by Rotherham Museums, Arts and Heritage.

Arts Council England