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2009
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Desk Chair Parade

On Sunday 2 August 2009, Ellie Harrison & Adele Prince (Sports Day) staged the inaugural Desk Chair Parade took place in Manchester as part of We are the Champions – Castlefield Gallery’s 25th Anniversary. A group of willing volunteers – office workers, shoppers and gallery goers alike – embarked on a magnificent adventure, freewheeling through the streets on ordinary office chairs.

Media Coverage

  • Loving the Inbox: the Artist as Bureaucrat
  • Ellie Harrison on β€˜This Is What Democracy Looks Like!’
  • Creating a cultural legacy: the National Museum of Roller Derby
  • Twelve to Watch in 2012
  • Market Forces
  • Lady Dada

Performance / Events

  • Bus Regulation: The Musical
  • The Elephant in the Room
  • The Glasgow Effect
  • This Is What Democracy Looks Like!
  • There’s nothing More Unequal than Equality amongst Unequals
  • High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison’s Zombie Walk
  • Dark Days
  • The Global Race
  • Transition Community of One
  • Attempt at an Inventory…
  • Anti-Capitalist Aerobics
  • The Other Forecast
  • Relentless Innovation
  • Desk Chair Disco
  • Fair Game
  • The History of Revolution: Ellie Harrison’s Fireworks Display
  • General Election Drinking Game
  • Desk Chair Parade
  • Olympic Ring Doughnut Eating Contest
  • I’ve Been Watching You
  • Bouncy Boxing Championships
  • GHAOS ZX

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  • Desk Chair Disco
  • event
  • exhibition
  • Manchester
  • Master of Fine Art
  • public space
  • Sports Day

News

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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