Deep Recovery at Loughborough University
Student competition
Artist Libita Sibungu’s work Deep Recovery will be touring to Loughborough University from 10 February to 10 March 2025.
Deep Recovery was commissioned by Radar, LU Arts’ contemporary art commissioning programme. It is a sound work which engages with colonial practices of archiving, ideas of memory, belonging and Black identity in the Granite-rich landscape of West Cornwall. It can be listened to on an MP3 player with an accompanying risograph publication, in an archival box. Ask at the reception desk in Pilkington Library from 9am - 5pm weekdays to listen to the work.
Find out how to access Deep Recover at Pilkington Library
Find out more about Deep Recovery on the Radar website
To celebrate hosting Libita’s work on campus and to encourage you to engage with the work, we are launching a student competition.
Competition details
Win £150 cash prize!
We are inviting students to submit a creative response to Deep Recovery.
This could be: a piece of creative writing, a sound recording, a print, a photograph, a textile work, or a creative response in any other form.
You could think about: how you relate to Libita’s work, your own identity, the landscape, sound as a medium, the textiles or other materials used in the presentation of the work.
You must have listened to the sound work before submitting an entry.
This competition is open to all Loughborough University students, including undergraduate and postgraduate taught students and doctoral researchers.
Entry is via an online form.
Deadline for submissions: 5pm, Friday 28 March 2025
We want this opportunity to be accessible to all students. If you would like to discuss any accessibility issues in advance of applying or to discuss how the opportunity can be made inclusive for you, then please email LUArts@lboro.ac.uk or call 01509 222948.
Winner announced: April 2025
The winner will be selected by a panel including Libita Sibungu, and University Curators David Bell and Lucy Lopez.
A selection of up to four shortlisted works will be showcased online and potentially on a campus location.