This morning's @mta press event at the new and improved 42 St Shuttle made it official. ‘Every One,' the first and largest section of @nickcaveart's new permanent project "Each One, Every One, Equal All," is now on view in the NEW 42 St Connector, a transfer passage linking Times Square (from the 42 St Shuttle platform) and Bryant Park stations. More than two dozen mosaic Soundsuits fill the Connector, some larger than life and bursting with joy. In the companion video (shown on each quarter-hour), many of the Soundsuits seen in the surrounding mosaic become activated by the movement of dancers.
Cave states, “Times Square is one of the busiest, most diverse and fabulously kinetic places on the planet. For this project I took the aboveground color, movement, and cross-pollination of humanity, bundled it into a powerful and compact energy mass that is taken underground. ‘Every One’ places the viewer within a performance, directly connecting them with the Soundsuits as part of an inclusive community of difference.”
Commuters and tourists are invited to marvel in the expression of color and movement now permanently part of the Times Square experience. ‘Every One’ will be joined by two additional mosaics, ‘Each One’ and ‘Equal All,’ also fabricated by @mayerofmunich and scheduled for installation at Times Sq-42 St station next year. When complete, Each One, Every One, Equal All, will be nearly 4,600 square feet total, Cave’s largest permanent public art to date as well as the largest mosaic project in the New York City Transit system.
Photos: MTA/Trent Reeves; MTA Arts & Design