Older, wiser, and still decluttering: Artist Michael Landy on his latest project

On a recent visit to Cork, Michael Landy told Ellie O’Byrne about his dramatic decluttering project and how the Young British Artists movement he was a part of have inevitably become assimilated.

Long before Marie Kondo sparked the current trend for minimalist living, the artist Michael Landy decluttered in the most drastic way possible: he destroyed all his earthly possessions in a performance installation called Break Down.