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JG Thirlwell will be creating live music and sonic structures for Sylvie Fleury’s ‘Instructions for Twilight’ as part of the Performa Biennial on Nov 22 and 23, 2025.

‘Instructions for Twilight’, an interdisciplinary live installation combining performance, sculpture, sound, and music. For nearly four decades, Fleury has appropriated and parodied the visual language of art history and consumer culture, probing gendered aesthetics and challenging the art-historical canon through a feminist lens. For this Performa Commission, she revisits the legacy of Fluxus and Happenings to create a series of renewed “scores,” blending actions, objects, and sound. The performance also reimagines some of her iconic early pieces — from ‘Car Wash’ (1995) to ‘Walking On Carl Andre’ (1997) and ‘Here Comes Santa’ (2003).

Sound engineering and spatialization by Daniel Neumann

JG Thirlwell‘s Cholera Nocebo project will make it’s North American debut in a special surround sound concert at Roulette in Brooklyn on May 30 2017. Tickets are available here.

Cholera Nocebo is a 50 minute cinematic electro-acoustic concert, performed  with software and sampling, autoharp, prepared piano and small electronic and acoustic objects and instruments. It is performed in surround sound with a projection  of multiple time-lapse car journeys along the Long Island Expressway The film was shot and edited by Gea with additional footage by Sebastian Mlynarski.

Conceived as a “Pangaea” project, Cholera Nocebo is intended to be performed at least once on each continent. It has thus far been performed in Morocco at the Marrakech Bienale , Club Babylon in Istanbul, Stockholm at the Art’s Birthday Party Festival, the Lausanne Film Festival, Cafe Oto in London and at the Dark Mofo Festival in Hobart, Australia.