Lectures
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Art, Activism & the Absurdities of Economic Growth
Harrison’s first TEDx talk gives an overview of her work in the decade that followed the global financial crisis of 2008. She examines the inherent contradiction between the continual and infinite ‘growth’ demanded by capitalism and the ‘sustainability’ necessary to prevent climate change, and explains how some serious analysis of her own lifestyle within our globalised economic system, led her to make some extreme decisions.
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The Glasgow Effect
On 8 January 2017, just one week after completing her year-long ‘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 of 2016, Harrison 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.
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The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion
A discussion about The Glasgow Effect chaired by Roanne Dods & Gerry Hassan with Darren McGarvey, Katie Gallogly-Swan & Ellie Harrison, held at the Glad Cafe as part of Imagination: Scotland’s Festival of Ideas.
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The RRAAF Debate
Harrison outlines the ideas behind her new Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund project at the Shifting Power event at Beaconsfield in London.
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Sustainability in Practice
Speaking at the Culture & Sustainability event organised by Julie’s Bicycle at The Tetley in Leeds, Harrison discusses the challenges and consequences of putting ‘sustainability’ into practice; specifically: her life-long project Early Warning Signs, her Environmental Policy and how her breaches of its Transportation section led to The Glasgow Effect.
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Ethics: Extremism & Compromise
A talk by Ellie Harrison exploring the relationship between her life choices and her work as an artist for Artquest’s Practice 360° programme at Camden Arts Centre in London.
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Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Talk by Ellie Harrison to students at Funen Art Academy in Denmark, presenting the ideas behind the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills – a title borrowed from the UK Government for her studio during her six-week residency at the academy.
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In conversation with Ewa Jasiewicz
Harrison in conversation with journalist and activist Ewa Jasiewicz at Talbot Rice Gallery as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2014, discussing her referendum-themed installation / event After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up the Mess? and the relationship between art, activism and social change.
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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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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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How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with our Impending Doom
27 Jan 2011
Edinburgh College of Art -
One Minute Manifesto
9 Oct 2010
AHM Symposium, University of Glasgow -
Hedonism vs. Asceticism: A control freak’s guide to the MFA
A lecture by Harrison as part of the Master of Fine Art (MFA) screening programme at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. Detailing her experience of studying on the MFA course at Glasgow School of Art from 2008 – 2010, the lecture offers an insight into how she set about organising both her time and the contents of her mind, and explores her tempestuous relationships with ‘work’ and ‘play’.
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This is… Ellie Harrison
15 Nov 2009
Central Station launch, Sloans, Glasgow -
Data Visualisation
4 Nov 2009
Ffotogallery, Turner House, Penarth -
In conversation with Sally O’Reilly
9 Oct 2009
Space, London -
Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector
23 Apr 2009
Plymouth College of Art -
The Live Lecture
23 Feb 2007
Broadway, Nottingham