Less is More: A mini exhibition by Ellie Harrison, The Barn, Banchory

TY - ADVS

T1 - Less is More

T2 - Plenty? 2024

A2 - Harrison, Ellie

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - Exhibition Venue: The Barn, Banchory, UK Exhibition Dates: 5-6 October 2024 Less is More is a mini exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Ellie Harrison exploring the contradictions between sustainability and growth, and the relationship 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 Effect was based on a simple premise: that for one calendar year Harrison would refuse 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 the issues the project provoked. These include: Glasgow’s (and Scotland’s) comparatively poor public health, and the many ways we must urgently reconfigure our towns and cities, and our economy so we can all live healthy, 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 obsession with profit and growth inevitably results in (self-)destruction. Artist’s Talk + Discussion On both Saturday 5 October and Sunday 6 October, 1:30-2:30pm, Harrison will host an exhibition tour and discussion providing a richer context for the works in relation to the Plenty? festival theme of ‘degrowth’.

AB - Exhibition Venue: The Barn, Banchory, UK Exhibition Dates: 5-6 October 2024 Less is More is a mini exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Ellie Harrison exploring the contradictions between sustainability and growth, and the relationship 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 Effect was based on a simple premise: that for one calendar year Harrison would refuse 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 the issues the project provoked. These include: Glasgow’s (and Scotland’s) comparatively poor public health, and the many ways we must urgently reconfigure our towns and cities, and our economy so we can all live healthy, 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 obsession with profit and growth inevitably results in (self-)destruction. Artist’s Talk + Discussion On both Saturday 5 October and Sunday 6 October, 1:30-2:30pm, Harrison will host an exhibition tour and discussion providing a richer context for the works in relation to the Plenty? festival theme of ‘degrowth’.

UR - https://www.thebarnarts.co.uk/article/plenty-2024

UR - https://www.ellieharrison.com/lessismore

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UR - https://www.facebook.com/blatantselfpromotion/posts/954452793171279

M3 - Exhibition

PB - The Barn

CY - Banchory, UK

Y2 - 5 October 2024 through 6 October 2024

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