All Cows Around is a performance in which Rebecca Solari and guest musician Barbara Schirmer open up a polyphonic and unstable space. Using sound as a primary material, the body as a site of transformation moving through different states of being, and language as a performative tool that affects and produces meaning, the piece blurs the boundaries between the everyday and sacred rituals.

Through multilingual narratives about Swiss cows, a boiling minestrone—a metaphor for the body in constant flux—, a chewing gum spat into a compost heap, and a bolt of lightning striking a thick swamp, the performance questions the norms that shape identities. Developing as an incantation carried by a herd of cows, the traditional Swiss hackbrett intertwines with screams, stories, language, and movement, calling for unity and refusal.

Rebecca Solari is a Swiss transdisciplinary artist. A graduate of the Dirty Art Master's programme at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, she develops a practice that explores self-representation and established social and gender codes through performance, video, music, curating, and installation. From the entanglement of abrasive sounds, obscured realities, and shifting social roles emerges an anti-heroic figure that is present throughout her work. Rebecca Solari is also a member of the electro-punk duo Crème Solaire and the musical and performative project fulmine. In 2025, she received the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize at the Swiss Art Awards for her work Solo Brodo (Primordio e Parsimonia) and was nominated for the Mobilière Art Prize. Her artworks, performances, and musical projects have been presented in numerous institutions, exhibitions, and festivals across Switzerland and internationally.

Barbara Schirmer is a Swiss musician, composer, and improviser renowned for redefining the possibilities of the hackbrett. Coming from a family of musicians with roots in Appenzell, she has developed over several decades a distinctive musical language that connects Alpine traditions with influences from Eastern Europe, Latin America, and other musical cultures around the world. Performing both solo and through numerous international collaborations, Barbara Schirmer has appeared on stages in Switzerland

and abroad since the 1980s. Her artistic work has resulted in

several acclaimed recordings, including FALTER.

Date: Saturday, 27.06.26
Time: 5pm⁠
Meeting point:

Kirche Auf der Egg
Auf der Egg 11, 8038

wheelchair accessible