Daniella Valz Gen: You can call me Horse

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    Daniella Valz Gen, You Can Call Me Horse (2024)

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This event was on Thu 23 May, 8pm

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You can call me Horse

In 1977 a new asteroid in our solar system was discovered – Chiron. Part horse, part human, the Greek god Chiron was a hybrid being, who was a teacher of medicine and mentor of heroes, despite living with incurable pain. Astrologers defined the asteroid as a placement indicating both woundedness and the capacity for healing. 

You can call me Horse is an experimental poetic ritual that channels the voice of Chiron, the god, through text, analogue imagery and soundscapes. Composed live in collaboration with Belladonna Paloma, the performance distills the ambiguous nature of medicinal poisons.   

This event forms the first iteration of a series of expanded poetry, performances and texts by 2024 Writer in Residence Daniella Valz Gen that reclaim, reimagine and embody mythological characters that have been othered, misunderstood or misrepresented.   

Find out more about Daniella’s residency here. 

About Daniella Valz Gen

Process-led, Daniella Valz Gen’s work explores poetic experience through different forms of reading, writing, performing and making. They’re invested in a relational and responsive approach to land, place, and the other-than-human. Born in Peru and based in London, Valz Gen’s work highlights the interstices between languages, cultures and value systems as areas where potential new meanings can arise.  

(Be)longing (2019) realised site-specific landscape interventions examining migration and ecology in post Brexit Britain. In 2022 Valz Gen took part in the OrganizmoBloom residency, ‘Body, Weaving and Territory’ (British Council/European Alternatives) in an indigenous community in the Amazon, which gave space for an immersive process of evaluation of indigenous technologies, in relation to language, environment and craft.  

Valz Gen’s work has been shown at Glasgow International, SPILL Festival, Aichi Triennale, Gropius Bau among others. Subversive Economies, their first poetry collection, was published by PSS Press in 2018. Their writing has been featured in The Happy Hypocrite, Map Magazine, Salt, and others.