Each year, High Liner Art invites an international array of artists to produce artworks to be presented within the unique setting of the High Line elevated park. The 2021-2022 season, named “The Musical Brain”, includes a new work by Antonio Vega Macotela. This group of works explores how music and sound can be used as a tool to inhabit and understand the world.

For One Second, Antonio Vega Macotela worked with hackers to embed the data from an mp3 file of one second of recorded silence into a large acrylic lens, thus distorting the image seen through it. The silence is taken from a video recorded on top of “La Bestia” [The Beast], one of the freight trains that many migrants from Central America use to traverse Mexico on their journey north.

Until March 2022.
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Antonio Vega Macotela, One Second, 2021. Part of The Musical Brain, a High Line Commission. On view April 2021 – March 2022.
Photo by Timoth Schenck. Courtesy of the High Line.