Dusking III marks the turning of another year with a performance by Lucy Wright and the Rushcart Crew, featuring the mobile sculpture, ‘Add to (Rush)cart’, commissioned by Horse + Bamboo in summer 2025, and staged at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield.

Inspired by the Lancashire folk custom of ‘rushbearing’—the gathering of Juncaceae rushes to spread on church floors to insulate them for the winter, celebrated by working-class people in the northwest of England during the Wakes Week mill holidays—the cart now wears its winter mantel and is pulled by a team of nine women wearing bespoke Dusking pyjamas.

The soundtrack, created by Ben&Sel and featuring Lucy Wright on vocals and jaw harp takes as its starting point the well-known folk song ‘Sumer is Icumen In’—one of the two oldest secular songs in the English language, popularly sung on May Day (1 May). Recast as a song to mark the end of summer and the beginning of winter the melody and lyrics are first played forwards, then backwards, as if to reverse the season itself.

In the second part of the film, the women take up heavy burlap sacks—a recurring motif in Wright’s Dusking performances—and swing them up and down, as if extinguishing the light. They then stand in the twilight holding sparklers, watching solemnly as they burn out.