‘Are We as a Society Going to Carry on Treating People This Way?’ Michael Landy’s Scrapheap Services
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Rainbird, Sean
Date published
2004
Abstract
During the 1990s Michael Landy made four major installations, including Scrapheap Services, 1995. Although motivated by personal concerns, these installations caught the mood of social change, labour market reforms and political ideology at the tail-end of the Thatcher era in Britain. All this had a profound impact on the emerging, metropolitan art scene of the time, soon to be labelled 'young British art'.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
1
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright
Collection