Flowbird is an invisible soundwalk, and the first part in a series of public QR works, which was shown in the outdoor exhibition TRAKT, curated by ZimmHall and Björn Norberg, at Campus Segerstedska in Uppsala, 2024.
By following the red and white warning tape, the audience could hear the usually inaudible electromagnetic field, surrounding the site.
Based on a secret mapping of Uppsala City’s invisible powergrid, and inaudible electromagnetic voltages, the QR work Flowbird engages in a public polemic with the modernist sound aesthetics of the German sound artist Christina Kübisch and her uplifted sound walks "Electrical walks".
The work questions not only the inaudible capitalisms of the corporate actors of the electric power fields, but the prevailing and traditional hegemonies of sound as a non-offensive and compliant decorative complementary to visual monuments in the public domain.
The aim of this series of public QR works, is to explore sound's materiality, interchangeable agencies and powers in the public domain longterm.
