Try Walking
in My Hooves

The queen of singing cows takes 25 people on a philosophical walk through the CIUP and its surroundings. The focus is deliberately on the presence of non-human bodies: dogs walking their friends, pigeons that have transformed a monument into their toilet, bodies of killed animals that are carried through the streets by humans as food or clothing. In Try Walking in my Hooves, Soya the Cow invites a change of perspective that challenges visual habits and self-image.   In a playful and musical way, she calls for a new constitution of the relationship between humans and other animals, based on our common animality.

 

Daniel Hellmann is a singer, performer, dance and theater maker from Zurich. He studied philosophy, classical singing and theater / performance and sees his artistic practice as a form of intersectional activism. 

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Artistic direction, conception, performance: Daniel Hellmann / Distribution: Les Productions de la Seine (Florence Francisco & Gabrielle Baille) / Try Walking in My Hooves was created on July 6, 2022 at Festival de la Cité (Lausanne).