Harbison, Isobel. 2019. Performing Image. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262039215
Book Section
Harbison, Isobel. 2026. Preserving Citizenry: Derry Film and Video Collective and the quest(ion) for institutions. In: Bridget Crone; Bassam El Baroni and Matthew Poole, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Curatorial Futures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781399508452
Harbison, Isobel. 2022. Whose time is it anyway? In: Christina Kennedy, ed. The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now - IMMA: 30 Years of the Global Contemporary. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, pp. 22-30. ISBN 9781909792272
Harbison, Isobel. 2022. NOT/ MY/ SCENE. In: Charles Asprey, ed. A.B. Real Life. London: Charles Asprey, pp. 34-39. ISBN 9781399924894
Harbison, Isobel. 2019. Of saving, of hoarding, of keeping to hand. In: Niamh O'Malley, ed. handle. Dublin: Royal Hibernian Academy, pp. 63-69. ISBN 1903875935
Harbison, Isobel. 2018. A bluff, a rock, a hole in the ground. In: Elizabeth Magill and 脷na McCarthy, eds. Elizabeth Magill, Headlands. Limerick: Limerick City Gallery of Art, pp. 7-11. ISBN 9780992796914
Article
Harbison, Isobel. 2022. Try Lizzie Borden: Derry Film and Video Workshop & distribution beyond the Broadcast Ban. Try Lizzie Borden,
Harbison, Isobel. 2021. Here to Stay: On the history of Dublin鈥檚 Hugh Lane Gallery. Frieze Masters(9), pp. 24-29.
Harbison, Isobel. 2021. Or Other, Or Both. Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, 51, pp. 144-155. ISSN 1465-4253
Gaschke, Jenny; Gould, Sarah; Perry, Gill; Ventrella, Francesco; Lamm, Kimberly; Davidow, Jackson; Harbison, Isobel; Coomasaru, Edwin; Alexander Cameron, James; Hart, Imogen; Fowler, Corinne and Massouras, Alexander. 2021. British Art after Brexit. British Art Studies(20), ISSN 2058-5462
Harbison, Isobel. 2020. Performance after the Pandemic. Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors, ISSN 0003-6536
Harbison, Isobel. 2019. What the Instagram Age Learned from Robert Rauschenberg鈥檚 Choreographic Pieces. Frieze(206), pp. 136-137. ISSN 0962-0672
Project
Harbison, Isobel. 2025 - 2026 Recording History: an oral history of artists and film active in the north of Ireland from 1968.
Show/Exhibition
Harbison, Isobel. 2026. Recording History: Seminar in Belfast. In: "Recording History: Seminar in Belfast", Ulster Museum, Belfast, United Kingdom, 10-11 April 2026.
Harbison, Isobel and Fox, David. 2025. Recording History: Trouble the Calm. In: "Recording History: Trouble the Calm", Belfast Film Festival, Belfast, Ireland, 1 November 2025.
Harbison, Isobel; Stevens, Sylvia and Fox, David. 2025. Recording History: Picturing Derry. In: "IMMA Talks: Recording History - Picturing Derry", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 19 August 2025.
Harbison, Isobel; McLaughlin, Cahal; Stevens, Sylvia and Tallentire, Anne. 2025. Recording History: Project Launch. In: "Recording History: The Launch", Embassy of Ireland, London, United Kingdom, 1 August 2025.
Harbison, Isobel; Crilly, Anne and Walsh, Lai Ngan. 2025. Stop Strip Searching. In: "Recording History: Stop Strip Searching", Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom, 30 July 2025.
Harbison, Isobel. 2022. Tapes Under the Bed. In: "Tapes Under the Bed", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland, 26 November 2022.
Harbison, Isobel. 2014. Pre-Pop to Post-human: Collage in the digital age. In: "Pre-pop to Post-human: Collage In The Digital Age", Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 25 January 2014 - 21 June 2015.
Harbison, Isobel. 2013. Image Games: Ericka Beckman. In: "Image Games: Ericka Beckman", Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom, 28鈥�29 September 2013.
Conference or Workshop Item
Harbison, Isobel. 2024. 'Who holds the (counter) archive? How to historicize films impacted by censorship & silencing?'. In: Radical Film Network Conference 2024. Universidad Aut贸noma de Madrid, Spain 19 - 22 June 2024.
Harbison, Isobel. 2024. 'Strip Searching - Security or Subjugation?'. In: Women in Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances. Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom 22 - 23 March 2024.
Harbison, Isobel. 2022. 'An Inventory of Traces: Rethinking public archives and collections beyond the nation/state'. In: Association for Art History鈥檚 48th Annual Conference. 91快色/ online, United Kingdom 6 - 8 April 2022.
Harbison, Isobel. 2022. 'The Derry Film and Video Workshop & distribution beyond the Broadcast Ban'. In: Northern Ireland鈥檚 Feminist and Queer Art Histories. The Courtauld Institute of Art, United Kingdom 21 January 2022.
Harbison, Isobel. 2021. 'Art Criticism and the Pandemic II - Safer Spaces'. In: Safer Spaces. London, United Kingdom May 2021.