Michael Landy : Break Down [with a quantity of ephemera, including the loose leaf "final chapter" of photographic pages and accompanying letter]

Landy, Michael; Artangel

ISBN 10: 1902201108 / ISBN 13: 9781902201108

Published by London: Artangel, 2001

About this Item

24 x 20cm. Ring-binder folder, 128pp. Includes number of hole-punched extra pages held in wraparound strip, and letter, newspaper clipping, a number of Artangel publicity flyers and brochures. This publication constitutes a complete list of artist's worldly possessions, drawings, photographs, a collage of research materials from the YBA art installation at C&A store at Marble Arch, London, Feb. 10-Feb. 24, 2001. Landy's items were progressively disassembled, destroyed, and recycled over the course of two weeks. "Through the 1990s, Landy's work has explored different aspects of contemporary consumerism. Over three years in the making, BREAK DOWN is the most ambitious - and most extreme - project to date. Michael Landy has made an inventory of his life - of every single thing he owns. Every piece of furniture, every record, every article of clothing, every book, every gadget, every work of art. Over 5000 individual items have been catalogued in Landy's existential audit. And all of them are broken down to the basic materials they are made of. Nothing but powder is left. This artist's 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 installation in Oxford Street in London, February 2001."425.00.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Michael Landy : Break Down [with a quantity of ephemera, including the loose leaf "final chapter" of photographic pages and accompanying letter]
• Publisher: London: Artangel
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1902201108
• ISBN 13: 9781902201108
• Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis

From the publisher: "Through the 1990s, Landy's work has explored different aspects of contemporary consumerism. Over three years in the making, BREAK DOWN is [his] most ambitious - and most extreme - project to date. Michael Landy has made an inventory of his life -- of every single thing he owns. Every piece of furniture, every record, every article of clothing, every book, every gadget, every work of art...over 5000 individual items have been catalogued in Landy's existential audit. And all of them are broken down to the basic materials they are made of. Nothing but powder is left. This artist's 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 installation in Oxford Street in London, February 2001."