MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #2 A Conversation with Artists Part 2

In the second part of A Conversation With Artists I am joined by artist Libita Sibungu. Our conversation responds to topics raised in Part 1, and further talks of growing up in Cornwall, wildness, granite, dislocation, the subterranean, and writing new narratives for Cornwall. 

 

Libita made a presention at the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh symposium on Sat 29th October. A recording of this event will be available on the MESKLA website from late November 2022.

 

Podcast 2 - A Conversation with Artists.

Artists Libita Sibungu, Georgia Gendall, &  Liam Jolly share their experiences of growing up in Cornwall & becoming artists. They also talk about how their relationship to Cornwall has shifted over the years and how it plays out in their work.

 

We had planned to all be in a room together to have this conversation. But we were meeting on one of the hottest days of the year, when a storm brought the first rain for weeks and disrupted rail and road travel and took out some mobile masts. In very Cornish fashion we were disrupted by weather, and we couldn’t all be in the same place, so we recorded the conversation in two parts.

 

Libita Sibungu currently lives and works in West Cornwall, where she grew up - a daughter to Namibian and English parents, born in the late 1980’s just after the first sight of a birth of a galaxy, and a few years before Namibia's independence. As an interdisciplinary artist, Sibungu works with writing, drawing, performance, photography, print, and sound to build environments that weave decolonial narratives into immersive installations and poetic arrangements. Through collaboration - research is expanded towards a collective experience, inspired by living archives, sonic cartographies and speculative fiction.

Sibungu is the recipient of the 2022 Arts Foundation Future Award, and has presented work with Temple Bar Gallery, Ireland, and Sonsbeek, Netherlands (2021); Somerset House, UK, and Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2020). Sibungu’s solo exhibition and ongoing body of work ‘Quantum Ghost’ was presented with Gasworks, and Spike Island, (UK) in 2019.

 

Part 1 with Liam and Georgia is also available via the project website, and platforms such as Podbean & Spotify. 

 

Please note: These podcasts were recorded in different locations and with a range of equipment. As such the sound quality varies and at times external factors are more present than ideal in the recordings.

 

Govenek a'm beus hwi dhe omlowenhe goslowes orto/ I hope you enjoy listening