Michael Landy
Break Down
ed. by Gerrie van Noord

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Editor(s)

Gerrie van Noord

Publication, year

London : Artangel, 2001

Scope

127 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

1902201108

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Michael Landy made an inventory of everything he owned: every item of furniture, every book, every piece of food, every cat toy... The list took three years to complete and it contained 7,227 items. Then, with the help of a large machine and an overall-clad team of operatives, he set about destroying it all. After two weeks nothing but powder remained. Break Down was presented in the former C&A department store on Oxford Street. In this recently closed shoppers' paradise, Landy's consumer nightmare was displayed during a fourteen day period of systematic de-construction.

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Person as subject

Michael Landy

Location

Cabinet 5 - 2: Kunstenaars