2011
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The Hot 100: the definitive list of Scottish creative talent
15 Dec 2011
The List (p.24-25) -
Relentless Innovation
Devised by Harrison for the The List Hot 100 Party at the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh after being voted No.93 in this annual list of Scotland’s ‘creative talent’. A ‘propaganda striptease’ of sorts, this artist’s talk / performance attempts to address the relentless innovation cycles such hitlists celebrate, and to explore the detrimental impact this obsession with the new might have on our mental health and the world around us.
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Ha Ha Road
3 Dec 2011
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno -
Best of the Rest
The final instalment in her series of 4 LIVE Broadcasts made over the course of a year (December 2010 – November 2011). Harrison draws on recurring themes from her previous broadcasts, to introduce the ideas behind Oliver Braid’s exhibition I’ll Look Forward To It and tell the story of her own work-life successes and failures in 2011. (Duration: 27:50)
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Desk Chair Disco
Ellie Harrison & Adele Prince (Sports Day) staged the first ever Desk Chair Disco in Newcastle upon Tyne on Friday 4 November 2011. City dwellers were offered the opportunity to redress their work-life balance by reclaiming their ordinary office furniture and taking it out on the town. As part of Wunderbar festival, Sports Day were invited to take over an empty office unit in the Pandon Building and put on this ‘roller disco with a difference’. The evening featured disco lights, DJ sets, live music and daring Desk Chair Derby displays courtesy of the Newcastle Roller Girls.
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Workers are Not Alone
4 Nov 2011
The Journal (p.10) -
Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed
3 Nov 2011
Wunderbar, Newcastle upon Tyne -
Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed
A speech by Harrison to launch the second Work-a-thon for the Self Employed in Newcastle on 3 November 2011.
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Market Forces
1 Nov 2011
Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne -
Ellie Harrison & Josie Long
1 Nov 2011
Wunderbar Radio -
Market Forces
31 Oct 2011
Wunderbar website -
Nice to Meet You
23 Oct 2011
Independent on Sunday (The Pink List p.4) -
Austerity & Anarchy
An installation which employs a spotlight and smoke machine to visualise and explore the correlation between cuts in public spending and instances of mass rioting on the UK’s streets.
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Converse/Dazed Emerging Artists Award
7 Oct 2011
Whitechapel Gallery, London -
The Shortlist
1 Oct 2011
Dazed & Confused (p.122-125) -
DIY Lottery Art Funding
1 Oct 2011
Art Monthly (Issue 350 p.21) -
Fair Game
An experiment in ‘value’ devised specifically for the context of the art fair. Fair Game is an endurance performance which sees Harrison gamble her entire artist’s fee for the project with fair goers, by setting-up and running a hoopla stall within the fair grounds.