‘We Are Builders / We Are Healers’ is an immersive audio story and performance piece following Umulkhayr, Radha and the Ruux Kholvawala or ‘Soul Openers’ - ceramic masks made to communicate with the underground and translate its pain, grief, joy and teachings to the human world.

This performance serves as a prologue to the Liverpool Biennial commission we will be working on throughout this residency, and showcases the first conversation between Umulkhayr, Radha and the Bedrock which, upon breaking, releases sounds of Grief and Rage which are then translated into a tender conversation via the Ruux Kholvawala.

Through this conversation Umulkhayr and Radha learn about their human duty, which is to unlearn human supremacy, in order to build deep connections between humans and more than human beings. Only then can we heal the wounds that humans have caused, without becoming martyrs. It is a dialogue about climate grief, justice and how death can bring us closer to each other and help us fulfil our part in a sacred cycle.