Mary Paterson

Mary Paterson

Mary Paterson is a writer and artist who works across text, visual art and performance. With Maddy Costa and Diana Damian Martin, she runs Something Other and The Department of Feminist Conversations, two inter-related projects that think politically about performance and performatively about politics.

Mythogeography
Writing 22 April, 2018

Rethinking Mythogeography

I first came across Phil Smith in Walking, Writing and Performance, in which he appears as ‘The Crab Man’, an alter ego also credited as one of the contributors to…

Writing 15 May, 2017

Apples & Other Languages

Camilla Nelson’s words bring things to life. ‘Stir this miracle to waking,’ she says, in the first poem in Apples & Other Languages, a signal of the alchemy of ideas…