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  • Performance / Events
    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!

  • Writing

    The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint

    On 4 November 2019, Luath Press published Harrison’s first book. Inspired by her 2016 ‘durational performance’ The Glasgow Effect – for which she refused to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for the whole calendar year – the book provides the complete context for her thinking and action. (Word count: 119,000)

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

    Bus Regulation: The Musical

    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!

  • Social / Networks
    People Powered Money event at Glasgow City Chambers in November 2016

    People Powered Money

    From March 2016 – March 2017, Harrison worked as part of the ‘Glasgow Pound Working Group’, to explore possibilities for developing a citywide community currency to serve the people of Glasgow and build a stronger local economy.
    Project website

  • Performance / Events

    The Glasgow Effect

    The Glasgow Effect was a multi-layered ‘research project‘, which took place in 2016. Its central provocation was that Harrison would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year (1 January – 31 December 2016). On 8 January 2017, she gave a talk about the work at the Glasgow Film Theatre. On 4 November 2019, she published a book providing the complete context for her thinking and action.

  • 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

  • Political Campaigns, Writing

    How the ‘Them’ became ‘Us’

    In this short text, written for ShareAction’s Listen to USS! divestment campaign in 2014, Harrison exposes how compromises can so easily occur when one grows-up and gets a ‘proper job‘. (Word count: 998)

  • Political Campaigns

    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.

  • Installations
    Vending Machine installed at the Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art in 2009

    Vending Machine

    An installation for which an old vending machine is reprogrammed to release snacks only when news relating to the recession makes the headlines on the BBC News RSS feed.

  • Installations
    The History of Financial Crises installed at Mejan Labs, Stockholm in 2009

    The History of Financial Crises

    An installation in which the turbulent history of capitalism over the last century is re-enacted each day by a row of popcorn making machines.

  • Installations
    Transactions installed at Mejan Labs, Stockholm in 2009

    Transactions

    Developed to accompany The History of Financial Crises installation – for the duration of exhibition, Harrison sent an SMS message to the phone installed in the gallery every time she made an economic transaction. The Coke can dances with joy every time a message is received.

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). On Sunday 24 April 2022 she staged Bus Regulation: The Musical at the CCA Glasgow.
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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This Tuesday 14 June, 6:30pm 🌍 Come and join me at Glasgow Sculpture Studios for this FREE discussion event as part of the 'Conversations about Art in a time of Environmental Change' series curated by Collins & Goto Studio. Sign up here 👇 ... See MoreSee Less

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Photos from Bus Regulation: The Musical by Ellie Harrison at CCA Glasgow on 24 April 2022 🚍🎵🛼🌈🎉 Find out more and watch the short film at: ellieharrison.com/strathclyde 📸 Erika Stevenson

Photos from Bus Regulation: The Musical by Ellie Harrison at CCA Glasgow on 24 April 2022 🚍🎵🛼🌈🎉 Find out more and watch the short film at: ellieharrison.com/strathclyde 📸 Erika Stevenson ... See MoreSee Less

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Fabulous!💪🥳

Woah Ellie this looks amazing! Congratulations xx

So proud to know you!! Xx

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Missed the show? You can now watch the short film about Bus Regulation: The Musical here 👇 www.facebook.com/blatantselfpromotion/videos/455569263012255

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03 May 2022: Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde) on Good Morning Scotland

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Missed the show? You can now watch the short film about Bus Regulation: The Musical here 👇 www.facebook.com/blatantselfpromotion/videos/455569263012255

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Ellie, is it possible to get more stickers? I've nearly used all the ones that I got at the CCA. Thanks in advance (I was the one with the bus hoodie and bus tattoo!).

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