2015
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Data Traces
4 Jul 2015
Academy of Art & Design FHNW, Basel (Switzerland) -
There’s nothing More Unequal than Equality amongst Unequals
A performance / installation exploring the different interpretations of the concept of ‘equality’ favoured by different parts of the political spectrum. On Friday 3 July 2015, a diverse group of six people took part in a simple performance at g39 in Cardiff – standing on a series of special plinths designed to raise each person up to an equal level, so that together they formed a perfect line.
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Poetics & Politics of Data
1 Jul 2015
Christoph Merian (Switzerland) (p.116-121) ISBN 978-3856166816 -
Democracy in London / Equality in Cardiff
30 Jun 2015
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The Art of Self-Tracking
18 Jun 2015
QS15 Exposition, San Francisco (USA) -
Poetics & Politics of Data
29 May 2015
HeK, Basel (Switzerland) -
Venice Biennale: Think Local, Act Global!
Harrison self-critically reflects on the experience of taking part in the 2015 Venice Biennale (as part of Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf) in this short text for Press Room, which laid the groundwork for The Glasgow Effect in 2016. (Word count: 760)
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Life Raft
Designed as the final hole of Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, Life Raft – a scale map of the UK floating in the adjacent canal – offers a safe haven to immigrant golf balls that can make the treacherous crossing.
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Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf
7 May 2015
BBC News at Six, BBC One -
City of the Dead
12 Apr 2015
The Sunday Mercury (p.21) -
High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison’s Zombie Walk
A performance / event in collaboration with Ort Gallery staged on Birmingham’s busy shopping streets. Dressed as “zombie employees”, more than 60 participants helped to map the former locations of thirteen of the big retail chains which have disappeared from our high streets since the start of the financial crisis in 2008.
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High Street Casualties interview
11 Apr 2015
BBC Radio WM -
Playing for Time
31 Mar 2015
Oberon Books (p.177-179 & p.205-206) ISBN 978-1783191864
