Commissioned by Radar, LU Arts’ contemporary art commissioning programme, Deep Recovery 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.  

Ask at the Library reception desk to listen to the work and for more details. 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. 

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.  

Find out more information Deep Recovery and Libita Sibungu on the Radar website.