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2014

  • 2014 Media

    After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up the Mess?

    1 Aug 2014
    Summerhall TV

  • 2014 Media

    Royal High School set for Festival revival

    31 Jul 2014
    The Scotsman

  • 2014 Media

    Counterpoint at Edinburgh Art Festival

    31 Jul 2014
    The List (p.88-89)

  • 2014 Media

    Indyref Confetti Cannon to go on Display at Edinburgh Art Festival

    31 Jul 2014
    The Herald (p.10)

  • 2014 Media

    Confetti Cannon Primed to Explode, or Maybe Not

    31 Jul 2014
    The Times (p.16)

  • 2014 Newsletter

    Edinburgh Art Festival / Early Warning Signs

    29 Jul 2014

  • 2014 Exhibition

    Playword

    25 Jul 2014
    NN Contemporary Art, Northampton

  • 2014 Publication

    Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland Guide

    22 Jul 2014
    National Galleries of Scotland & Glasgow Life (p.195) ISBN 978-1906270711

  • 2014 Media

    Interview with Ellie Harrison

    18 Jul 2014
    Voice of Russia UK Radio

  • 2014 Media

    Facing Extinction

    9 Jul 2014
    Resonance FM (02:38-10:20)

  • 2014 Lecture

    Some People Think I’m Bonkers

    18 Jun 2014
    LIFT, The Yard Theatre, London

  • 2014 Exhibition

    Anti-Capitalist Aerobics

    Re-staged during Gustav Metzger’s Facing Extinction conference on 7 June 2014, 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. (Timecode 02:38-10:20)

  • 2014 Exhibition

    Progress Report

    Created in 2014 by analysing more than a decade of personal data, Progress Report reveals how, despite espousing “sustainability“, Harrison’s own lifestyle (measured in ‘work’ – no. emails sent and ‘leisure’ – no. lengths swimming) has simply been mirroring capitalism’s “growth fetish”.

  • 2014 Media

    Spear vs. Scissors: Art Held Captive by Budget Cuts

    1 Jun 2014
    ArtLeaks Gazette (Issue 2 p.49-63)

  • 2014 Media

    Edinburgh Art Festival announced three new commissions for 2014

    7 May 2014
    The List

  • 2014 Exhibition

    Art Lending Library

    3 May 2014
    Crown Street Gallery, Darlington

  • 2014 Writing

    The Art School Handbook

    In this essay, written in 2014 during her first year teaching at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Harrison surveys the troubled global landscape of higher education and sketches out her vision for The Art School of the 21st Century. (Word count: 5,668)

  • 2014 Lecture

    Practices in Motion

    26 Apr 2014
    Dundee Contemporary Arts

  • 2014 Performance / Events
    Projection screen in living room for event in April 2014

    Transition Community of One

    Devised in 2014 in response to Glasgow Open House Arts Festival, this special event at Harrison’s flat in Glasgow aimed to expose the paradox at the heart of her lifestyle and challenge her actually existing ‘socialism in one person’. Monthly screenings continued in 2016 as part of The Glasgow Effect.

  • 2014 Internet / Broadcasts

    Ellie & Oliver’s Long Distance Relationship

    For Glasgow Open House Arts Festival 2014, Harrison & her former flatmate Oliver Braid reunited to present two special editions of their popular radio show, as part of three interlinked projects taking place over two weekends, across both their new residences in the west and east of the city.

  • 2014 Exhibition

    Definite Motion

    12 Apr 2014
    Generator, Dundee

  • 2014 Newsletter

    Transition Community of One

    9 Apr 2014

  • 2014 Media

    Out of the Archives

    1 Apr 2014
    Diva Magazine (p.42-43)

  • 2014 Lectures

    Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life

    Harrison explores her growing awareness of her own labour conditions and changing relationship to work in this talk at the Time & Motion symposium at the Royal College of Art in March 2014.

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). In 2023 she won the Stephen Fry Public Engagement Award for her ‘Bus Regulation: The Musical’ Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside (2019 – 2023).
In 2021 the Second Edition of Harrison’s book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was launched at the UN Habitat’s Innovate4Cities conference to mark the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, and chosen by the Ecologist for the Resurgence Book Club. Her Early Warning Signs were also exhibited at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library during COP26 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project.
Harrison’s Vending Machine continues to feature in the 😹 LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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