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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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Say No to Tesco
In 2013, Harrison led the Say No to Tesco campaign, which began as a protest against the proliferation of small supermarkets in Glasgow and concluded in the group presenting a petition to the Scottish Parliament in 2014.
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Green Tease
17 Jan 2014
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow -
The Future of Our Railways
14 Sep 2013
Green Party Conference, Brighton -
Say No To Tesco: Stop Supermarket Expansion on our Local High Streets
3 Sep 2013
Petitions Committee, Glasgow City Council -
Lost Lines
1 Aug 2013
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh -
For the Love of It
A polemic by Harrison to conclude Artquest’s For The Love Of It conference exploring the various factors which can and should motivate artists.
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REcreative
13 May 2013
South London Gallery, London -
Data as Culture
16 Mar 2013
Open Data Institute, London -
The Lush Prize
Alongside activist Peter Tatchell, Harrison co-hosted the awards ceremony for the inaugural Lush Prize in support of alternatives to animal testing.
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National Museum of Roller Derby
The National Museum of Roller Derby (NMRD) collection was founded at Glasgow Women’s Library in 2012 as Harrison’s contribution to the Library’s 20th anniversary celebrations. As a new ‘outreach’ initiative, the NMRD aims to bring a whole new, strong and revolutionary young audience to the Library, by using it as a home for the UK’s first permanent archive for the new and exciting all-female, full-contact sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby.
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What If… Artists Redesigned Economics?
Sustain Talks at Royal College of Art, London. Noel Douglas from Occupy Design UK, artist Ellie Harrison, and James Meadway and Ruth Potts from the New Economics Foundation discuss the failure of capitalism to deliver on social and environmental wellbeing, and explore the structures that might be, redefining economic parameters. Chaired by Cecilia Wee, RCA. Visual Communication graduate 2012, Livia Lima presents her work on alternative currencies.
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21 Revolutions
Talk given by Harrison – in full Roller Derby attire – at Glasgow Women’s Library on 22 March 2012, where she discusses the ideas and hobbies, which developed into her founding of the National Museum of Roller Derby that June.
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In conversation with Richard DeDomenici
16 Mar 2012
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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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Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed
A speech by Harrison to launch the second Work-a-thon for the Self Employed in Newcastle on 3 November 2011.
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Pecha Kucha
2 Sep 2011
Inspace, Edinburgh -
Trajectories
21 Jun 2011
Broadway, Nottingham -
Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed
A speech by Harrison to launch the first ever Work-a-thon for the Self Employed in London on 13 June 2011.
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Trajectories
Trajectories is a web-based application which enables you to compare your life to other people’s and test how you match up against their achievements. Enter your details and watch your career trajectory visualised alongside those of your heroes or rivals from the past and present. Check to see if you are still on track for ‘success’ and schedule email reminders for future dates to remind you of your goals.
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Trajectories Launch
27 Jan 2011
Inspace, Edinburgh -
How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with our Impending Doom
27 Jan 2011
Edinburgh College of Art -
Pecha Kucha
19 Jan 2011
Glasgow School of Art