Something Other Live: On Elasticity

Something Other Live is a series of experimental writing and performance events which act as companions to the themed Chapters published by Something Other collective.

Please join us on Monday 14 July at 7pm for a curated series of performances, screenings and sound pieces to launch and celebrate Something Other’s thirteenth chapter, On Elasticity: a collection of audio, video and written works and other somethings that consider stretch, contraction, tension and Spring.

The line-up will include works finished and just beginning as well as new experiments from contributors including Karen Christopher, Rhiannon Armstrong, Susan Rudy, Alexandra  Baybutt, Helen Savage, Victoria Gray and Sam Williams.

The event will be hosted by Diana Damian Martin and Maddy Costa. 

The evening will be loose and informal, and snacks and drinks will be provided.

Artists presenting:

A. Lyre

Alexandra Baybutt and Mary Paterson 

Alexandra Baybutt works with movement as an educator, consultant, researcher and artist. 

Mary Paterson is a writer, poet and co-host of Something Other. 

Caridad Svich 

Caridad Svich is a text-builder and theatre-maker. Their stage works include Red Bike, 12 Ophelias, and The House of the Spirits (based on Isabel Allende’s novel). They’re published by TCG/Nick Hern, Intellect Books, Smith & Kraus, Manchester University Press, Routledge and their new book: Transmedia Theatre Plays, is out now with Methuen Drama, 2025. 

Helen Savage

Helen is a writer based in London. She has had her short fiction published in Cipher Press’s Anthology Nights Like This. From 2019-2020 she studied a Masters in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, London. She currently teaches Creative Writing to people in prison.

Karen Christopher

Karen Christopher is a collaborative performance maker, performer, and teacher. Her company, Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects, is devoted to collaborative processes, paying attention as an act of social cooperation. 

Mark Joseph

Mark Joseph writes to amuse a handful of friends. He’s had some success in obscure competitions, but he’s never written anything as good as a cheese and onion toastie. 

Rhiannon Armstrong

Rhiannon Armstrong is an interdisciplinary artist making works with empathy, interaction, and dialogue at their core.

Susan Rudy

Susan Rudy is a queer poet, feminist critic, writer, editor, and teacher whose work focuses on what experimental writing can teach us about gender. 

Trish Scott

Trish Scott is an artist, educator, curator and researcher based at King’s College London. Her research is focused on challenging and dismantling traditional hierarchies and systems of value in cultural knowledge production, in order to create new forms of relationality and authorship.

Victoria Gray

Victoria Gray is a movement artist & practice-led researcher whose work includes performance, moving-image, & writing in expanded forms. 

Something Other is a website, a collaborative space, and a series of events, growing from an open dialogue between the writers Mary Paterson, Maddy Costa and Diana Damian Martin. They use publishing, live events, workshops, salons, archives and interventions to mobilise, share knowledge, and reflect together.

Chapter 13- On Elasticity will be published post-event on our website: https://somethingother.blog/