I’ve seen some pretty impressive shadow and reflection art projects lately and Korean artist Bohyen Yoon‘s Unity installation is amongst them. Besides the human sexuality aspect, part of the intrigue of the project is that the shadow installation is constructed of a milieu of disjointed, morphed individual pieces seemingly without context, their intent hidden until light is illuminated upon them. But even then it’s not the illuminated pieces themselves but it’s in the shadows, where the light is hidden that the shapes form together to reveal the whole and cohesive image. To the old adage that you can’t have light without dark, here the absence of light means nothing without the light and the whole means nothing without each piece being in concert with one another. Kind of like sex.

Read more and see some more photos of the installation, here.

Via MyModernMet.com, “Provocative Shadow Art Created Through Suspended Body Parts & GaksDesigns Tumblr

Bicycletaxidermy.com has come up with a pretty ingenious idea, though one that rides a fine line between pretentious hipster/wanna-be-cool kids and die hard bicyclists. For most people in which biking is a part of their lifestyle, they form a relationship with their bike and it takes on character and individuality. When it’s time for that trusted friend to “go to the farm” what better way to honor that buddy than by making it a trophy, always there to reminisce, displayed with pride.

via Thrillist (which also usually rides the fine line between legit and patronizing)

I won’t be there and that makes me very, very sad. But if you are in the nyc area this saturday, March 2nd, you need to go check this out. Common Folk founder extraordinaire Jah Jah Brown is a creator/curator of this monstrosity of an art show. Not only will there be large installations to crawl through that give a glimpse into the head of the artists but there’ll also be a gallery next door featuring prints, photography, paintings, and sculpture. And since the flyer does the show no justice here are a couple sneak peak shots (you can find more on the show’s tumblr here.)

For a much more detailed write up and info…

Headscapes is a group installation show about what goes on inside the heads of artists. In order to find creativity, artists often go into a particular head space. These frames of mind vary, each made from a pallet of ideas, feelings, sounds, symbols, and processes.

In Headscapes, a group of self-organized, Brooklyn artists are making these places real in an empty warehouse in Long Island City. The show features work by more than 25 artists.

Viewers of the show are invited to go inside the various projects and inside the headscapes of artists. Set in a raw warehouse environment, the structures hide detailed interiors. The Installations include an igloo made of speakers, a web spun inside a giant geod, a forced-perspective room, a black and white 8mm film odyssey, a kalediscope projection lighthouse, a nest of neon geometric collages, a car theater, and umbrella-clouds that project beams of directional sound.

A gallery show next door to the warehouse space features prints, pictures, paintings, and small sculptures by the artists at the See.Me headquarters.

One part Brooklyn warehouse installations madness, one part gallery exhibition, Headscapes opens an unusual door to the creative process. During its three-week run, the show will host musical performances, film screenings, and a theater piece by Dome Theater.

The show features two dozen artists and musicians mostly from Brooklyn, including individuals and collaborators who have created sound installations inside a former convent, rafted down rivers on art boats, made drive-ins from junk cars, formed DIY-music venues and galleries, organized tallbike jousting competitions, made installations into a floating boat motel, and created a shanty town of musical houses. Participating artists include:Jah Jah Brown (Ninjasonik), Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels (Rabid Hands), Benjamin Mortimer (Swimming Cities), Kara Blossom and Noah Sparks, Kelie Bowman (Cinders Gallery, F.L.A. Gallery), Conrad Carlson (DJ Dirtyfinger) and Ian Helwig and Greg Henderson, Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark (Empire Drive-In), Alexandra Drewchin (Eartheater, Guardian Alien, King Konqubine), Alana Fitzgerald, Forrest Gillespie (Dome Theater), Maya Hayuk and Morgan Blair, Serban Ionescu, John Kane, Michael Nineohseven, Zack Poff, Jisho Roche Adachi and Benny Schepis, Jennifer Jean Shear, Martyna Szczesna, Sarah Tompkins, and VnessWolfCHild and Ben Wolf (Rabid Hands).

Headscapes is a project conceived and curated by Jah Jah Brown, Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, and Benjamin Mortimer, with support from See.Me, Rockrose, and Build It Green.

Select works will be featured by See.Me at Scope Art Show during NYC’s Armory Arts week. See.Me will be offering ticketed limo rides from the art fair to the Headscapes warehouse in Long Island City.

For obvious reasons I try to keep up with my favorite artists, for unobvious reasons I completely missed out on hearing about Reader’s newest gallery show (granted it was in Springfield, OR (?)). Luckily, better late than never, I came across a post about it at Vandalog. Reader, Read More, OYE, Rancour, Boans, Books etc. etc. is killing it, inside and out.

You can also check out photos of the whole show at Ditch Projects.

Between now and the end of December, all ICA staff members are taking turns serving tea in Valerie’s, which is part of the exhibition Jeremy Deller: Joy in People. Valerie’s Snack Bar is a replica of a real tea room, really called Valerie’s Snack Bar, in Manchester, England. It was in Manchester that Jeremy Deller organized a procession (called Procession) with dozens of local clubs, committees, bands, and social groups of all kinds. During the year and a half he worked on the project, he liked to hang out in the real Valerie’s so much that he built this replica and put it on a float in the parade.

Pedro Reyes is an ingenious artist, the kind we love here at the CFC. Building off his project from 2008, Palas por Pistolas (1527 guns and weapons were melted down and fashioned into shovels that were then used to plant 1527 trees), he hits us with Imagine. Apparently the Mexican government caught wind of his projects and offered him all the metal from a public destruction of weapons they were having in Juarez. He took them up on their offer and this time took to turning instruments of death and violence into instruments of…musical.

“It’s important to consider that many lives were taken with these weapons; as if a sort of exorcism was taking place the music expelled the demons they held, as well as being a requiem for lives lost.”

Video, photos, quotes…

“There is a disparity between visible and invisible violence. The nearly 80,000 deaths by gun-shot that have occurred in Mexico in the last 6 years, or the school shootings in the US are the visible side of violence. The invisible side is that one of gun trade-shows, neglecting assault rifle bans, and shareholder profit from public companies. This is a large industry of death and suffering for which no cultural rejection is expressed.Guns continue to be depicted as something sexy both in Hollywood and in videogames”