Schimpfluch-Gruppe

Schimpfluch-Gruppe is a Swiss actionist collective founded in Zurich in the late 1980s by Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck) and Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant), subsequently expanded to include Dave Phillips, Marc Zeier (G*Park) and Daniel Löwenbrück. Their performances and recordings combine extreme vocalisation, physical action, contact-microphone amplification, abject humour, ritual and confrontation in a lineage that extends directly from Viennese Actionism while developing a distinctly Swiss and more absurdist character.