There's a Michael Landy work that I think about a lot. It's called Break Down. In 2001 Landy destroyed every single thing he owned: every item of clothing, document and record, his passport, his car, his father's coat, everything. This isn't so much a story but an anti-story. An attempt at wiping the slate clean. This process of grinding and shredding a single man's earthly goods into smaller and smaller pieces was open to the public and many people wandered in off Oxford Street over the two weeks it took Landy and his team to accomplish their goal. People were bewildered, disbelieving, some saddened. Landy himself nods towards one possible explanation for his actions in the punning title:
break down
break down
break down
There's a Michael Landy work that I think about a lot. It's called Break Down. In 2001 Landy destroyed every single thing he owned: every item of clothing, document and record, his passport, his car, his father's coat, everything. This isn't so much a story but an anti-story. An attempt at wiping the slate clean. This process of grinding and shredding a single man's earthly goods into smaller and smaller pieces was open to the public and many people wandered in off Oxford Street over the two weeks it took Landy and his team to accomplish their goal. People were bewildered, disbelieving, some saddened. Landy himself nods towards one possible explanation for his actions in the punning title: