Breakdown
MICHAEL LANDY
MICHAEL LANDY, 2001
On the morning of February 10th, 2001, Michael Landy owned 7,227 objects. 14 days later he owned nothing but the clothes on his back and 5.75 tons of powdered consumer and personal goods. In a disused storefront, Landy and a team of technicians, mechanics, assistants and artists loaded up everything Landy owned - artwork, clothes, family heirlooms, a Saab 900 Turbo, newspaper clippings, expired spices, defunct AV equipment, range ovens, living rooms chairs - onto a specially constructed conveyor belt and began breaking them down. Each object was disassembled and then pulped and powdered until nothing remained. It is an artwork with no tangible end product.