This project was realized in partnership with the Dansomètre de Vevey.

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 Zurich-based 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.

For Try Walking in my Hooves, Soya the Cow takes the audience on a philosophical and musical walk through Vevey, allowing the audience to (re)discover the city with a fresh pair of eyes. 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 a playful and challenging way, Soya the Cow calls for a new constitution of the relationship between humans and other animals, based on our common animality.


Une production de 3art3 avec le soutien de Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pour-cent culturel Migros, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung