{"identifier":"ILL-EYLan_6312231879112","browse_author":"Illuminations TV Ltd (Producer) and Illuminations TV Ltd (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_visartssch"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350912557,"description":"Michael Landy acknowledges that he will probably always be known as \"that bloke who destroyed all his belongings\". In his 2001 artwork Break Down he publicly and systematically shredded, dismantled and demolished everything that he owned. \u201cI\u2019m always trying to get rid of myself,\" he says, \"so that I can move on. And then I end up always coming back to the same themes... I guess I\u2019m a creature of habit.\" In this film profile Michael Landy reflects on Break Down and on his other complex and ambitious projects, Scrapheap Services (1996) and Semi-detached (2004). Prompted by his father\u2019s injury from an industrial accident, /Semi-detached/ involved the construction inside Tate Britain of a full-scale replica of the exterior of his parents\u2019 suburban home. He also discusses his meticulous, delicate drawings as well as the ideas and directly personal concerns that underpin his unconventional art. Michael Landy RA is one of the Young British Artists. He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down, in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008, Landy was elected Language - English","videoId":6312231879112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_visartssch","title":"Michael Landy","xml_source":"bvl_visartssch_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"ILL-EYLan","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/8f816291-32f6-4469-a180-7ac47be60739/fcb42e09-8843-4e06-aee4-9ec6a6ade27b/1280x720/match/image.jpg","series_id":"series_theEYE","facets":"appliedArt , Applied art , fineArt , Fine art , art , Art , audience , Audience , modernityAndModernism , Modernity and modernism , schoolsMovementsAndStyles , Schools, movements and styles , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature , made_20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , english , English , origin_europe , Europe , origin_unitedKingdom , United Kingdom , video , Video ,","contenttypeorder":3,"series":"theEYE","date_of_publication":2005,"publisher":"Illuminations TV Ltd Illuminations TV Ltd","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"ILL-EYLan","facet":["appliedArt","art","artsAndLiterature","audience","english","fineArt","made_20002009","made_2000Present","modernityAndModernism","origin_europe","origin_unitedKingdom","schoolsMovementsAndStyles","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Illuminations TV Ltd~Illuminations TV Ltd"}