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    Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at the Bluecoat on 13 November 2022

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside)

    The final part of Harrison’s Bus Regulation: The Musical Trilogy – inspired by the 1980s hit musical ‘Starlight Express’ – re-enacts the history of public transport provision in the Merseyside region from the post-war period to the present day… on roller skates!

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    Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at CCA Glasgow on 24 April 2022

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde)

    The second iteration of Harrison’s Bus Regulation: The Musical – inspired by the 1980s hit musical ‘Starlight Express’ – re-enacts the history of public transport provision in the Strathclyde region from the post-war period to the present day… on roller skates!

  • Performance / Events
    Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at Manchester Art Gallery on 28 September 2019

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Greater Manchester)

    Inspired by the 1980s hit musical ‘Starlight Express’, this performance / event re-enacts the history of public transport provision in Greater Manchester from the post-war period to the present day… on roller skates!

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    The Elephant in the Room

    As part of Panic! It’s an Arts Emergency Harrison was commissioned to make a new work using their research into inequality in the arts as a starting point. In April 2018, Harrison invited 50 participants from the Creative & Cultural Industries and beyond to take part in a Power & Privilege Workshop in London, to explore how these hidden forces in society affect all our lives.

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    Darren Johnson AM hosts a discussion

    This Is What Democracy Looks Like!

    We live in a liberal democracy, yet how much power do we really have to decide the direction of our country? “This Is What Democracy Looks Like!” gives you the opportunity to meet & greet your newly elected politicians at a roving roundtable discussion upon a bicycle built for seven. Hop on, decide on your direction and then travel together through the Olympic Park whilst discussing the issues that matter to you with the people in power.

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    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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    MONEY M€AL

    Harrison collaborated with artist Emily Furneaux to facilitate this discussion event about our relationships with money, as part of Glasgow Open House Art Festival in 2015.

  • Performance / Events
    Zombies walk through Birmingham City Centre in April 2015

    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.
    Project website

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    Consensus decision-making facilitated by Tripod

    Dark Days

    An ‘experiment in communal living’, this event offered one hundred participants the unique opportunity to stay the night in the great hall of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow as part of a pop-up community.
    Project website

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    The Global Race

    The Global Race is an absurd vision of an Olympic games of the future, in which the brilliance of human ‘innovation‘ means we no longer need to break a sweat! At an athletics track in central Berlin, a group of ‘elite athletes’ and members of the public competed in a series of races on Segways.

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    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)

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    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.

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    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.

  • 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.

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    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

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). In 2022, Harrison is working to complete the Bus Regulation: The Musical Trilogy – staging the Strathclyde Musical at the CCA Glasgow on 24 April, and the Merseyside Musical at the Bluecoat in Liverpool on 13 November 2022.
In autumn 2021, a new and updated 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. 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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Dont miss your chance to see the *award-winning* Bus Regulation: The Musical at Platform Glasgow next Saturday 28 January!! 🪩🚍🎵🛼 Get your name on the Waiting List, as we plan to release more free tickets on Monday! Sign up here 👇
🎟️ platform-online.co.uk/whats-on/event/912

Don't miss your chance to see the *award-winning* Bus Regulation: The Musical at Platform Glasgow next Saturday 28 January!! 🪩🚍🎵🛼 Get your name on the Waiting List, as we plan to release more free tickets on Monday! Sign up here 👇
🎟️ platform-online.co.uk/whats-on/event/912
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I was well chuffed to receive one of the University of Dundees Public Engagement Awards for my work on the Bus Regulation: The Musical Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside over the last few years 🥳🚍🪩 🛼 #DiscoveryDays23

I was well chuffed to receive one of the University of Dundee's Public Engagement Awards for my work on the Bus Regulation: The Musical Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside over the last few years 🥳🚍🪩 🛼 #DiscoveryDays23 ... See MoreSee Less

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Da iawn ti. Well done you.

Well done Ellie!

Legend!!

Congratulations Ellie! Very well deserved, I am sure! 🥰xx

Huge congratulations Ellie! So we’ll deserved 🥳👍

Well done! 😁

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Did you know Glasgow had a fully-integrated public transport system called Trans-Clyde back in 1979?! 🚍🚇🚆 Come and find out what happened to it in Bus Regulation: The Musical live at Platform Glasgow on Saturday 28 January 🪩 Get your free ticket 👇

Did you know Glasgow had a fully-integrated public transport system called 'Trans-Clyde' back in 1979?! 🚍🚇🚆 Come and find out what happened to it in Bus Regulation: The Musical live at Platform Glasgow on Saturday 28 January 🪩 Get your free ticket 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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It’s fantastic

Looks like it’s sold out already…is there any way to bags to if there’s cancellations?

Yeh me too Ellie. If any cancellations I’d love a ticket!

Loved this show when I saw it at the CCA last year - and I got in via a waitlist.

Any German speakers out there? 🇩🇪 Check out this brilliant feature about Bus Regulation: The Musical & the campaigns to re-regulate buses in city-regions across the UK on Deutschlandfunk Kultur 📻🚍🎵🛼 ... See MoreSee Less

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Busverkehr in Großbritannien: "Ein Desaster"

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📢 Dont miss your chance to see Bus Regulation: The Musical live at Platform Glasgow on 28 January 2023! 🚍🎵🛼 🌈 Featuring skaters from Glasgow Roller Derby & Mean City Roller Derby, the show tells the history of public transport in Strathclyde 🎫 Book your free ticket: platform-online.co.uk/whats-on/event/912 #BusRegulation #Easterhouse #GlasgowEastEnd #CreativityMatters #GlasgowEast

📢 Don't miss your chance to see Bus Regulation: The Musical live at Platform Glasgow on 28 January 2023! 🚍🎵🛼 🌈 Featuring skaters from Glasgow Roller Derby & Mean City Roller Derby, the show tells the history of public transport in Strathclyde 🎫 Book your free ticket: platform-online.co.uk/whats-on/event/912 #BusRegulation #Easterhouse #GlasgowEastEnd #CreativityMatters #GlasgowEast ... See MoreSee Less

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