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Mochileros Guy Bar Amotz 8 November - 15 December 2002 Guy Bar Amotz makes protean, sculptural installations which incorporate music and the possibility of music, and which refer to the structure of 'sound systems'. His sculptures, such as those made for 'Burning Love' (2000) or his on-going project 'Positive Vibration', comprise configurations of modular units, housing home-made speakers, and are made from cast and polished fibreglass fused with everyday found objects as diverse as a broken drill, discarded parts of a stereo or cut-up tennis balls. The units connote streamlined space-age missiles, hybrid musical instruments like some kind of electronic bagpipes or low-fi surveillance satellites. Placed in precise configurations, Bar Amotz creates choreographies of repeated objects which, whilst in every specific instance functioning as closed systems, also suggest the possibility of infinite expansion. The work has a perfomative quality, which is to say that although interaction is not necessary, the possibility of participation by the spectator is implied. The four new works in the show, connnectedly referred to as 'Mochileros' meaning backpacker in South America, are the latest in a line of hybrid, reactive, sound systems. The look is an industrial one. Hardcore, Punk Techno, Heavy Metal, 'badass'- motorbike-design. The three backpacks for example have a slick sci-fi appearance that brings to mind the idealist forms of Romanian modernist Brancusi. The two artists also share an alignment in their use of primitivism. For Bar Amotz this translates into a brutish visual sensibility, but at the same time a lavishly elegant one. What we have here are 21st century sound sysem sculptures made under the influence of tribal values. Urban tribal values and jungle tribal values. They're cacophonies of meeting cultures and the objects reflect that.
	Mochiler - Slug 2002 fibreglass, found-objects, electronics
	Mochiler - Green 2002 Portable Sound System
	Mochiler-Green 2002 PVC-pipe, fibreglass,electronics
	Mochiler - Slug 2002 Portable Sound System