Blue Pieta is a director, performer and dramaturg based in the UK. They were dramaturg for Thikra: Night of Remembering (2025) directed by Akram Khan. Bhanu Kapil is a poet based in Cambridge. Her first UK collection, How To Wash A Heart,won the TS Eliot Prize. Since 2022, Pieta and Kapil have performed in a succession of collective performances derived from Kapil’s poems and choreographed by Pieta. These performances have been featured in exhibition programming by Serpentine Galleries, Burley Fisher Literary Festival, The Place, The Horse Hospital, and the University of Cambridge.