Deep Recovery at Pilkington Library

For one month, Libita Sibungu’s Radar commissioned work Deep Recovery (2023) will be located at Pilkington Library on campus. Students, staff and members of the public are invited to experience the work.

Deep Recovery comprises an evocative sound work and risograph publication housed in an archival box. The work can be signed out at the Library reception desk and listened to in any available space within the library. We recommend a quiet space or study room.

Members of the public are able to access the library for this event but in order to comply with Library regulations, please bring photo ID with you. Under 18s should be accompanied by an adult but will not require their own photo ID. Students and staff will need to present their campus card.

The work cannot be taken out of the Library.

About Deep Recovery

Deep Recovery (2023) by Libita Sibungu is a sonic fragment comprising a sound work and small risograph publication housed in a bespoke archival box fabricated by Rhea Evers. The work is designed to be sited in archival spaces and experienced as an intimate act of listening.

Responding to a research visit to the British Geological Survey archives in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, as well as the narratives told about granite in the artist’s home of West Cornwall, Sibungu’s work questions the colonial logic of archiving: what is determined worth storing, what becomes erased, and whose perspectives are valued. Deep Recovery plays with the form of an archival object whilst existing as an unruly sonic fragment, a trace of embodied knowledge.

For more information on the project and the artist visit the Radar website.