exhibition
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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.
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21 Revolutions
20 Jul 2013
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh -
Spaceship Unbound
6 Jun 2013
Castlefield, Manchester -
Money after Money
2 May 2013
Eye of Gyre, Tokyo (Japan) -
Thrift Radiates Happiness
14 Mar 2013
Birmingham Municipal Bank, Birmingham -
Data as Culture
30 Nov 2012
Open Data Institute, London -
Friendship Festival
For Glasgay! 2012, Harrison & her flatmate Oliver Braid presented Friendship Festival. Building on the success of their popular radio show, they invited six other friendly duos with intimate and provocative thoughts to share with the world, into their home for a series of weekend radio show ‘takeovers’.
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The Redistribution of Wealth
Installed in Tate Britain’s Historic Collection Room, this piece retells the history of UK government spending on the arts from the birth of the ‘Council for the Encouragement of Music & the Arts’ in 1940, right up to the present day climate of cutbacks.
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21 Revolutions
22 Sep 2012
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow -
Ellie & Oliver Show
3 Aug 2012
Edinburgh Art Festival -
Experimenting With Clouds
12 May 2012
Rua Red, Dublin (Ireland) -
Ellie & Oliver Show
20 Apr 2012
Glasgow International -
Art Lending Library
20 Apr 2012
Glasgow International -
Relentless Innovation
Devised by Harrison for the The List Hot 100 Party at the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh after being voted No.93 in this annual list of Scotland’s ‘creative talent’. A ‘propaganda striptease’ of sorts, this artist’s talk / performance attempts to address the relentless innovation cycles such hitlists celebrate, and to explore the detrimental impact this obsession with the new might have on our mental health and the world around us.
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Ha Ha Road
3 Dec 2011
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno -
Best of the Rest
The final instalment in her series of 4 LIVE Broadcasts made over the course of a year (December 2010 – November 2011). Harrison draws on recurring themes from her previous broadcasts, to introduce the ideas behind Oliver Braid’s exhibition I’ll Look Forward To It and tell the story of her own work-life successes and failures in 2011. (Duration: 27:50)
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Desk Chair Disco
Ellie Harrison & Adele Prince (Sports Day) staged the first ever Desk Chair Disco in Newcastle upon Tyne on Friday 4 November 2011. City dwellers were offered the opportunity to redress their work-life balance by reclaiming their ordinary office furniture and taking it out on the town. As part of Wunderbar festival, Sports Day were invited to take over an empty office unit in the Pandon Building and put on this ‘roller disco with a difference’. The evening featured disco lights, DJ sets, live music and daring Desk Chair Derby displays courtesy of the Newcastle Roller Girls.
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Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed
3 Nov 2011
Wunderbar, Newcastle upon Tyne -
Market Forces
1 Nov 2011
Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne -
Converse/Dazed Emerging Artists Award
7 Oct 2011
Whitechapel Gallery, London -
Fair Game
An experiment in ‘value’ devised specifically for the context of the art fair. Fair Game is an endurance performance which sees Harrison gamble her entire artist’s fee for the project with fair goers, by setting-up and running a hoopla stall within the fair grounds.