Please join us on Monday 14th July 2025 for our first in-person chapter launch since the pandemic (!)
We will be back at the Live Art Development Agency in London for an informal and eclectic evening of performances, screenings and sound pieces.
The event will launch and celebrate our 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 & Mary Paterson, Helen Savage, Victoria Gray & Sam Williams.
The call out for On Elasticity is now closed. The call out is archived below.
‘Why does everything feel so …? [significant pause].
*Doom Scroll*
The game is to corral your tiattentio into a transction, before you kno what s happening, while you are just hang cing in the stretched elastic of the unfnished thoelastict t…
Why …. evrything ….?
Waiting, waiting, hre we are, time is elastic, space is celastic, we are connectd to the war zone, the mindfulness technique, th networking opprtunity we are suspended in the conspiracy theory, the skincare routine, the war zone the war zone the wildfire the comedy club we swim between emails nd housework with the video of the rescued kittns playing in our short term memory we share things but we don’t know what other people …
What …. other people ….?
Sarah Ahmed writes: “When we think of […] moments of snap, those moments when you can’t take it any more, when you just can’t take it any more, we are thinking about worlds; how worlds are organised to enable some to breathe, how they leave less room for others.”
What … other ….?
For the thirteenth chapter of Something Other, we invite contributions on the theme of Elasticity. If an elastic is a notion that enables something to stretch, what is that notion? What does elasticity offer, or promise? How far can something (or we) stretch? Across how many locations, borders, crises? How does elasticity sound? What do we hear across the borders? What bends, what flexes, what will return, what will bear the load? Does language s t r e t c h? What is unbearable, what is unreturnable, what will spring back to form? What will snap?
Submissions
Please send us your writings (creative, short fiction, poetry, non-fiction, performative, hybrid), your reading (that syllabus, reading list, un-reading and un-learning lists), visual snaps (photographs, memes, graphics, videos), and other something others that resonate with the the theme.
The deadline is midnight on 30th April and the submissions guidelines are here:
Before each chapter is published, we hold a live performance of the pieces submitted. Everyone is invited to present for five minutes (this might not be your entire piece).
For this chapter we are delighted to be working with the Live Art Development Agency to hold an event in central London on Monday 14th July 2025.
Image details: A hot-air balloon,’Descent of the balloon in the valley of Elbern’.
Image taken from Aeronautica; or, Sketches illustrative of the Theory and Practice of Aerostation; comprising an enlarged account of the late aerial expedition to Germany. With plates. Originally published/produced in F. C. Westley: London, 1838. Courtesy, British Library
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