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PluRiCorNia – Horses as Oracles with MATTEO MARZIANO GRAZIANO

Research Project
Week 2 13:00 – 19:00

PluRiCorNia is a queer-mythical, multi-species research project. It is an open field of experimentation where queer embodiment, systemic constellations, and human-animal relations intersect with ritual and myth.

At its centre are the Horses. Yes, real horses: presences of instinct, spirit, and relational depth. Their gaze is wide, their listening porous, their perception non-human. They invite us into a dimension where time slows down and vulnerability becomes a source of power. In their company, participants become part of a larger field: no longer separate individuals, but nodes in a human-non-human constellation of attention and resonance. Horses become portals to the mythical: messengers between worlds, mirrors of our emotions, guides to a primordial instinct of body and breath.

PluRiCorNia begins with the body but refuses to end there.

Here, emotionalities are not possessions but flows: wonder that arrives without claim, longing that hums beneath the skin, tenderness that quietly reshapes. In unveiled presence, horses ask us to drop our masks, shed the armour of self. Entering the herd and their language means surrender: to be choreographed by oracles of instinct, to let the flesh remember its animalistic tides.

Through these human-non-human relationships, constellations themselves rise as invisible architectures. Archetypes, ancestors, known and unknown energies: they lean into the room, tilt our spines, whisper through gestures. Queerness here is not an identity but a cosmology. It is the shimmering threshold where boundaries melt, where the divine slips in disguised as body, where mythical beings find passage. Horses too, inhabit queer thresholds: wild and domesticated, earthly and celestial. In PluRiCorNia, queer bodies are portals, charged with the knowledge of everlasting change.

To stand among horses is to stand at the edge of what can be named.

Small practices gather and layer. The first and the last day is in the dance studio. The three central days will be at the horse stable. Presence with a horse becomes ritual, and silence swells into the song of the herd. What emerges are not fixities but living ecologies: porous, trembling spaces where humans, animals, objects, sounds, and entities cohabit. Queer bodies, mythical beings, and non-human presences weave emotions into living rituals of flesh and spirit.

PluRiCorNia refuses to separate human from non-human, art from spirit, body from myth. It is an invitation to enter a realm where the ordinary is transfigured through ritual attention, and performance becomes a threshold to the divine.

Let Horses be our Oracles. Let Horses be our Teachers.