Try Walking In My Hooves

Animal rights, climate activism, music and queer feminism - spiced up with a good dose of drag: that's Soya the Cow. The alter-ego of Swiss performance artist, musician and activist Daniel Hellmann, blurs the boundaries between male and female, human and cow, and manages the balancing act between a serious desire to change the world and a humorous sense of lightness. After performing at animal rights and climate protests, international tours in theatres and art festivals, and appearances on TV shows such as The Voice of Germany, the singing drag cow comes to San Francisco for the first time. With emotional songs and surprising storytelling, Soya will immerse you in her fascinating bovine universe that challenges the human self-image as the centre of the universe.

For Try Walking in my Hooves, Soya the Cow takes the audience on a philosophical walk through the city. 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. 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.

The event is presented by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco in collaboration with Frameline 47, Swissnex and the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco.