“Shuttle and Shake” brings Shimon Attie’s signature approach to motion, perception, and space into the heart of Fulton Center. The digital installation presents dancers, martial artists, and other performers set against a stark black background, their bodies illuminated with striking clarity. Seen in crisp isolation, each gesture becomes a sculptural moment—an exploration of how bodies slice through space, accelerate, pause, and transform.

Positioned within one of the busiest transit hubs in New York City, “Shuttle and Shake” echoes the constant movement of people flowing through the station. The suspended figures mirror the arcs, turns, and rhythms of daily commuting, creating a dialogue between choreographed motion and the organic choreography of public life. As riders navigate escalators, platforms, and corridors, the artwork reflects the kinetic energy that defines both the station and the city at large.

By highlighting movement as both an artistic form and an urban reality, Attie invites viewers to notice the poetry within their own pace—whether rushing, drifting, or weaving through the crowd. “Shuttle and Shake” offers a moment of clarity amid motion, celebrating the vitality of New York City through the universal language of the moving body.

"Shuttle and Shake" was edited by Michael Lantz/Malotek.

Shuttle and Shake plays for two minutes at the top of every hour. The work is presented with technical support from Westfield RISE and ANC Sports.

Shimon Attie is an international visual artist whose work investigates how modern media can re-envision relationships between space, time, place, and identity. His practice includes large-scale, site-specific installations as well as mixed media works and photographic series created for museums, galleries, and the public realm.

Attie frequently uses projected imagery, digital media, and collaborative processes to animate sites with the echoes of their lost histories or imagined futures. His projects often center the experiences of communities whose stories have been marginalized, bringing their presence into contemporary civic space. In other works, he engages local participants directly, inviting them to co-create new representations of their histories, memories, and potential futures.

His work has been exhibited and collected by leading museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Miami Art Museum, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Attie’s honors include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, multiple Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, a visual art fellowship from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, and support from the National Endowment for the Arts. He received the Lee Krasner Achievement Award in both 2013 and 2019 and was inducted into the National Academy of Design in 2018. His work has been the subject of six monographs and has been featured in films aired on PBS, BBC, and Germany’s ARD/ZDF. Since completing his MFA, Attie has realized more than 30 major projects across 10 countries.