Libita Sibungu

Born in Cornwall, late 1980's. Lives and works between Bristol, UK and Windhoek, Namibia.

Libita Sibungu’s solo and collaborative projects explore the political and spiritual relationships between the landscape and the body - told through personal and collective histories connecting diasporic legacies. Research is shared through embodied acts of digging; in earth, in records - revealing lost, and buried testimonies emerging out of fugitive experiences. Installations, performance, print, text and sound, help bring to life ongoing conversations surrounding the possibilities of a living archive.

Projects of note have been presented with; ​Gasworks, Somerset House,​ ​Spike Island, (all UK) and Cabaret Voltaire, Switzerland, (2019); Whitstable Biennale; Eastside Projects, (all UK) and Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg (2018); South London Gallery, UK, and Diaspora Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, Italy (2017). 

Forthcoming projects include participation in Sonsbeek,​ ​​Force Times Distance On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies,​ Arnhem, Netherlands, and Agitation Co-op​, ​Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.