Liverpool. and Kinetics.

This is my favourite piece of Kinetic Sculpture, Rebecca Horn "Concert for Anarchy" I think; but, seeing Joyous Machines exhibition at Tate Modern has made me vastly question my opinion: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, was simply Joyous, performative, mechanical almost chaotic, but a planned chaos, Michael Landy's homage and work about Jean Tinguely seminal Auto destructive sculpture "Homage to New York", is quirky it's like being in an inventors work shop.

"Homage to New York", was supposed to extinguish it self when the fire started from the self playing piano, which only played three notes, it ultimately didn't work as planned, but chance involved, changed it to be a whirling attraction dangerous in so many ways, fascinating, Kinetic art, that had an element of performance, a broken machine, that you weren't really sure what it would do next, chance often interviened, paper was supposed to save it self in the pond to keep some automatic drawing's, the writing cog went the wrong way, it would have exploded, if the authorities hadn't got involved, but Jean Tinguely insisted.

It has relevance to day with Kenetic Master's like Rebecca Horn and her falling Piano "Concert for Anarchy" a witty surprising cieling decoration., and Michael Landy's collage or complete attack on consumerism,

I liked the complete ingulfing, involvement and enthusiasm. Michael Landy has fanatically, produced, collected and studied some fascinating work, how it works in mysterious ways, when it shouldn't work at all.


Break Down Michael Landy's most famous piece is a reaction to consummerism. and has very close links to the machine of destruction in a way, its a way or organising and destroying almost starting a fresh, the machines Tinguely worked on were machines to make things automatic, like automatic writing drawing music, just producing with out using any traditional artistic talents, but a lot of mechanical genius and imagination, starting a fresh.

Wiki says.

Break Down, the work which put him in the public eye, was held in February 2001 at an old branch of the clothes store C&A on Oxford Street in London (C&A had recently ceased trading, and the shop had been emptied). Landy gathered together all his possessions, ranging from postage stamps to his car, and including all his clothes and works of art by himself and others, painstakingly catalogued all 7,227 of them in detail, and then destroyed all in public. The process of destruction was done on something resembling an assembly line in a mass productionfactory, with ten workers reducing each item to its basic materials and then shredding them.

Break Down, which was a joint commission from The Times newspaper and Artangel, attracted around 45,000 visitors. At the end of the process all that was left was bags of rubbish, none of which were sold or exhibited in any form. Landy made no money as a direct result of Break Down, and following it had no possessions at all.

So I will still research automatic thing's consumerism, and all sorts, but Liverpool today you enlightened me.