MICHAEL LANDY
Break Down
Throughout the 1990s, Michael Landy explored different aspects of contemporary consumerism. Over three years in the making, Break Down was the most ambitious – and extreme – project of Landy’s career. The artist made an inventory of his life – of every single thing he owned. Every piece of furniture, every record, every article of clothing, every book, every gadget, every work of art...over 5,000 individual items were catalogued in Landy’s existential audit. And all of them were broken down to the basic materials they were made of. Nothing but powder was left.
This book – part manual, part inventory, part research file – includes the complete list of his possessions, drawings, photographs, a collage of research materials and an interview with Julian Stallabrass, as well as a section of photographs from the actual installations in Oxford Street in London, February 2001.
ISBN 1 902201 10 8
127 pp, over 100 colour and b/w images, 200 x 240 mm
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