Designed to move intimately through archival spaces as a sonic-fragment, incantation and trickster. Deep Recovery is available for loan, so far it has journeyed through; Kresen Kernow library and archives, (2023), Hypatia Trust Women's library and archives (2024), and Loughborough University library (2025). 

The project was developed through a series of workshops led by Libita, together with a group of mixed-heritage-women-artists, living in West Cornwall. They walked in the granite-rich landscape, visited sites of geological and mythological significance, and made field recordings, later translating these embodied experiences into improvised collective reflections. The resulting audio-piece includes excerpts of these field recordings alongside performance scores written by the artist and performed with the artists involved. Acting as a counter narrative to the stories told of the permanence, solidity and endurance of the granite landscape, and its connection to a particular idea of Cornishness / Britishness. Deep Recovery instead invites us in to see the impermanence of geological forms: the mineral rich veins and cracks which weave quartz, feldspar, mica, and black tourmaline — through the granite landscape, and the nature of the granite itself as molten and displaced. Alongside the fluidity which characterises the landscape is a renewed understanding of who belongs to the land, and how our own stories have the potential to transform with our environments. 

Credits: Maria Christoforidou, Caroline Deeds, Catherine Lucktaylor, Angeline MorrisonLibita Sibungu (vocals); SJ Blackmore (sound production); Rhea Evers (enclosure fabrication); Ellie Russell (graphic designer);  Lucy Lopez, Liz Howell (project producers)

Access more of the project here.