Ellie Harrison

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2013

  • Publication

    Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life

    12 Dec 2013
    Liverpool University Press & FACT (p.120-123) ISBN 978-1846319662

  • Exhibition

    Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life

    12 Dec 2013
    FACT, Liverpool

  • Writing

    Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed

    Harrison identifies how she gradually became more politicised as a result of her growing awareness of her own labour conditions and ‘self-exploitation‘ within the post-Fordist world of work. An edited version of this text was published in the ‘Activism‘ chapter of Playing For Time (p.205-206) in 2015. (Word count: 711)

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    Anti-Capitalist Aerobics

    9 Dec 2013

  • Writing

    Eat 22: The Personal is Political

    One decade on, Harrison reflects on her seminal 2002 project Eat 22, and examines her persistent interest in ‘consumption‘ in recent works: Vending Machine, The Other Forecast and Anti-Capitalist Aerobics. An edited version of this text was published in the ‘Food Growing‘ chapter of Playing For Time (p.177-179) in 2015. (Word count: 692)

  • Performance / Events

    Anti-Capitalist Aerobics

    Originally created as a disruption during Invisible Dust’s Ways of Seeing Climate Change conference on 30 October 2013, Anti-Capitalist Aerobics engages delegates in an energy intensive workout in order to expose some of the fundamental contradictions in the way we live our lives.

  • Performance / Events

    The Other Forecast

    Recorded LIVE in front of a green screen, Harrison’s The Other Forecast offers her summary of the absurd consequences of capitalism, as a warning about the future we are heading towards if the system continues unchecked. Broadcast on the Big Screen at MediaCityUK in November 2013 as part of The Other Forecast project – a collaboration between Harrison & John O’Shea.
    Project website

  • Newsletter

    The Other Forecast

    25 Oct 2013

  • Media

    Climate Change: β€œArtists can energise people to act”

    24 Oct 2013
    a-n website

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    The Other Forecast / Bring Back British Rail (Green Party Conference)

    14 Oct 2013

  • Political Campaigns

    Power For The People

    Harrison launched Bring Back British Rail’s ‘sister campaign’ Power for the People in October 2013 in order to popularise the idea of returning the UK’s energy production and supply to public ownership. Together the campaigns aim to ‘join the dots’ between our most carbon-intensive industries and services to make evident the need to remove the profit-motive from all of them in order to meet the challenges of climate change.
    Campaign website

  • Media

    Swaying Railway

    17 Sep 2013
    KBS News (South Korea)

  • Lecture

    The Future of Our Railways

    14 Sep 2013
    Green Party Conference, Brighton

  • Lecture

    Say No To Tesco: Stop Supermarket Expansion on our Local High Streets

    3 Sep 2013
    Petitions Committee, Glasgow City Council

  • Newsletter

    Early Warning Signs

    2 Sep 2013

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). On 8 January 2017, she presented The Glasgow Effect: A talk by Ellie Harrison at Glasgow Film Theatre. In 2019, she was commissioned to develop Bus Regulation: The Musical for Manchester Art Gallery and her first book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was published by Luath Press. In 2020-21, her Early Warning Signs are installed at four ‘host venues‘ around the UK and her Vending Machine features in the 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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This Weds 24 February, 7pm, I'm really looking forward to hosting Get Glasgow Moving's public meeting on Public Transport: Privatisation & Poverty w/ special guest Philip Alston πŸšπŸ’°πŸ’Έ Philip Alston is the former UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty & Human Rights, whose report from the UK in 2018 highlighted the deregulation and privatisation of our public transport as a key factor exacerbating poverty. Please join us to find out more! Sign up here πŸ‘‡ ... See MoreSee Less

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Public Transport: Privatisation & Poverty w/ special guest Philip Alston

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The Glasgow Community Energy project has been keeping me busy throughout lockdown 🌞 Were gearing up to release some exciting news in the next few months, so please sign up for updates πŸ‘‡

The Glasgow Community Energy project has been keeping me busy throughout lockdown 🌞 We're gearing up to release some exciting news in the next few months, so please sign up for updates πŸ‘‡ ... See MoreSee Less

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It was a great honour to give evidence to Scotland's Climate Assembly this weekend on behalf of Get Glasgow Moving. My presentation outlined the β€˜rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes’ to our public transport system necessary before 2030 to address the climate emergency 🌍 ... See MoreSee Less

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Here's a little project I've been working on this year during lockdown - compiling a comprehensive Bibliography for my book 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint', which was published by Luath Press in November 2019 πŸ“šπŸ€“ The book itself has Endnotes, but no Bibliography, so I thought it would useful to draw together all the resources referenced in one alphabetical list, including links to those available online. ... See MoreSee Less

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The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint

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Fancy a bit of holiday reading? πŸŽ„ My book 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' is on sale direct from publishers Luath Press πŸ“•πŸ“™πŸ“’πŸ“—πŸ“˜ Order by 15th December to receive in time for Christmas πŸ‘‡ ... See MoreSee Less

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The Glasgow Effect — Luath Press

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Terrific book. Very readable and so interesting. All your answers to why things (often not great) happen in Glasgow.

If you care about Glasgow read this book.

I finally finished it! An online comprehensive Bibliography for the Book. I hope it's useful: glasgoweffect.ellieharrison.com/bibliography/

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