Lull - French & Mottershead

Lull invites you to take a winter walk through the town of King’s Lynn, as you listen via headphones to a story of how plants, animals and fungi bide their time, waiting for Spring.

Starting from outside Lynn Museum, the town becomes a habitat for life you can and cannot see. As you wander, you’ll find yourself thinking of absences and arrivals, abilities and adaptations, and of your own seasonal and bodily rhythms. Until you realise you’ve arrived somewhere new.

Lull is experienced through a spoken narrative streamed to your own smartphone. It has been written using insights gathered from local entomologists, botanists, and ecologists, combined with site research on overwintering strategies and habitats.

Each pack contains instructions to access the Lull audio, accompanied by materials that help illustrate or elaborate on data or anecdotes locating the walk in King’s Lynn. These include a map of habitats, a fold-out of animal tracks and average life expectancies, day length and temperature charts for Astronomical and Meteorological Winter, an image of a Peacock Butterfly, and a Brown Long-Eared Bat for the palm of your hand.

Important Information

Age guidance: 10+, those under 16 must be with a parent or guardian.

Length of walk: 43 minutes

Accessibility: The start point at Lynn Museum and the beginning of the walk through the pedestrianised Vancouver Centre precinct, is level access. Thereafter, you will be free to find your own route as you wander town.
A full transcript of the audio is available via the audio webpage, a link to which is in the pack.

Postage/Collection: You will receive an email letting you know when the pack has been posted. If you have not received your pack within 2 weeks of purchase please get in touch at boxoffice@nnfestival.org.uk.
If you do not want to pay for postage you can collect from our office at Norwich Guildhall between 10am-5pm, Monday- Thursday.

French & Mottershead are the UK artist duo Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead. Spanning performance, video, photography, sound and digital installation, their work makes use of detailed social and forensic research to expand the viewer’s relationship to site. Often working with experts as part of their process, they undertake rigorous investigations into the ways environments, architectures and public spaces connect with who we are, and define a particular context to examine the codes and conventions that underpin the flows of feeling within.