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Imagine No Possessions.(Michael Landy performance art exhibition)(Brief Article)(Interview)

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| March 05, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

British artist Michael Landy just destroyed everything he owned: from his Saab 900 down to his dirty socks. "Breakdown," his latest exhibit, was set in an unused shopping space on London's Oxford Street. For two weeks a conveyor belt transported his belongings to a shredder. Peri spoke to Landy in the climactic moments of the "performance":

Why dispose of everything you own?

I see it as an examination of consumerism.

What prompted you to do it?

The collapse of communism. Capitalism and communism were foes, but they balanced each other, whereas ...

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