At the heart of Clegg & Guttmann's show at East London's Wilkinson Gallery lies a simple metaphor: one beat playing off another, as in syncopated music. To this end, the artists construct playful yet sometimes sinister contraptions that require visitor participation. Patrons are invited to strap ankles together in The Chain-Gang — a somewhat obtuse evocation of the rhythms created by laboring slaves — while Continuous Drawing/Exquisite Corpse harps back to the surrealists' game of unintended consequences. The four remaining exercises show us how new orders grow out of old, as each piece is created anew within its own physical parameters.

-Helen Holtom

Clegg & Guttmann's work is also on view in a solo show at Galleria Lia Rumma in Milan through November 30.