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Less is More:A mini exhibition by Ellie Harrison, The Barn, Banchory
Full text linkExhibition Venue: The Barn, Banchory, UKExhibition Dates: 5-6 October 2024Less is More is a mini exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Ellie Harrisonexploring the contradictions between sustainability and growth, and therelationship between art and activism.It features ten works produced over the last decade in the run-up to,during and since her controversial 2016 project The Glasgow Effect.An attempt to live a ‘low-carbon lifestyle of the future’, The Glasgow Effectwas based on a simple premise: that for one calendar year Harrison wouldrefuse to leave Glasgow’s city limits or use any vehicles except her bike.The book Harrison wrote following this experience, The Glasgow Effect:A Tale of Class, Capitalism + Carbon Footprint, explores many of theissues the project provoked. These include: Glasgow’s (and Scotland’s)comparatively poor public health, and the many ways we must urgentlyreconfigure our towns and cities, and our economy so we can all livehealthy, happy and sustainable lives.Central to the book is a critique of the capitalist system we live in which‘knows the price of everything and the value of nothing’, whose obsessionwith profit and growth inevitably results in (self-)destruction.Artist’s Talk + DiscussionOn both Saturday 5 October and Sunday 6 October, 1:30-2:30pm,Harrison will host an exhibition tour and discussion providing a richercontext for the works in relation to the Plenty? festival theme of ‘degrowth’
Less is More:A mini exhibition by Ellie Harrison, The Barn, Banchory
Full text linkExhibition Venue: The Barn, Banchory, UKExhibition Dates: 5-6 October 2024Less is More is a mini exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Ellie Harrisonexploring the contradictions between sustainability and growth, and therelationship between art and activism.It features ten works produced over the last decade in the run-up to,during and since her controversial 2016 project The Glasgow Effect.An attempt to live a ‘low-carbon lifestyle of the future’, The Glasgow Effectwas based on a simple premise: that for one calendar year Harrison wouldrefuse to leave Glasgow’s city limits or use any vehicles except her bike.The book Harrison wrote following this experience, The Glasgow Effect:A Tale of Class, Capitalism + Carbon Footprint, explores many of theissues the project provoked. These include: Glasgow’s (and Scotland’s)comparatively poor public health, and the many ways we must urgentlyreconfigure our towns and cities, and our economy so we can all livehealthy, happy and sustainable lives.Central to the book is a critique of the capitalist system we live in which‘knows the price of everything and the value of nothing’, whose obsessionwith profit and growth inevitably results in (self-)destruction.Artist’s Talk + DiscussionOn both Saturday 5 October and Sunday 6 October, 1:30-2:30pm,Harrison will host an exhibition tour and discussion providing a richercontext for the works in relation to the Plenty? festival theme of ‘degrowth’
Less is More:A mini exhibition by Ellie Harrison, The Barn, Banchory
Full text linkExhibition Venue: The Barn, Banchory, UKExhibition Dates: 5-6 October 2024Less is More is a mini exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Ellie Harrisonexploring the contradictions between sustainability and growth, and therelationship between art and activism.It features ten works produced over the last decade in the run-up to,during and since her controversial 2016 project The Glasgow Effect.An attempt to live a ‘low-carbon lifestyle of the future’, The Glasgow Effectwas based on a simple premise: that for one calendar year Harrison wouldrefuse to leave Glasgow’s city limits or use any vehicles except her bike.The book Harrison wrote following this experience, The Glasgow Effect:A Tale of Class, Capitalism + Carbon Footprint, explores many of theissues the project provoked. These include: Glasgow’s (and Scotland’s)comparatively poor public health, and the many ways we must urgentlyreconfigure our towns and cities, and our economy so we can all livehealthy, happy and sustainable lives.Central to the book is a critique of the capitalist system we live in which‘knows the price of everything and the value of nothing’, whose obsessionwith profit and growth inevitably results in (self-)destruction.Artist’s Talk + DiscussionOn both Saturday 5 October and Sunday 6 October, 1:30-2:30pm,Harrison will host an exhibition tour and discussion providing a richercontext for the works in relation to the Plenty? festival theme of ‘degrowth’
Setting the stage for better public transport
No full textEllie Harrison tells the story behind her show Bus Regulation: The Musical
Setting the stage for better public transport
No full textEllie Harrison tells the story behind her show Bus Regulation: The Musical
Building back better in the ‘Dear Green Place’ with free buses and trains
No full textEllie Harrison makes the case for getting Glasgow to go green and free in its transport syste
Building back better in the ‘Dear Green Place’ with free buses and trains
No full textEllie Harrison makes the case for getting Glasgow to go green and free in its transport syste
Artist as Active Citizen
No full textEllie Harrison discusses how arts skills and strategies, built over the course of a career, can be applied to ways of making change. Commissioned by a-n Artists Council as part of its one-year research project Artists Make Change
Turning the tide of bus deregulation
No full textEllie Harrison, Artist, activist and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice, tells the story of her award-winning Bus Regulation: The Musical Trilogy and the impact that it has had
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