Anri Sala: "Time No Longer" in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern

Update: "Time No Longer" in the Cistern is extended through January 17, 2022!
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"Time No Longer" (March 13 to January 17, 2022) is a commissioned artwork for the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern by the internationally-renowned multi-media artist, Anri Sala. This immersive film and sound installation will transport visitors into an other-worldly environment within this vast, subterranean reservoir. "Time No Longer" incorporates film projected onto a massive translucent screen with a soundtrack emanating throughout the space, its reverberations creating ripples on the surface of the water. Visitors can encounter the work in 360 degrees by making their way around the full perimeter of the 87,500-square-foot Cistern, hearing, feeling, and watching it through the Cistern’s 221 supporting columns.
The film depicts a weathered turntable floating in a space station. The turntable is tethered only by its electric cord, which allows it to keep playing a new arrangement of Olivier Messiaen’s "Quartet for the End of Time", written while the French composer was incarcerated in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany during the Second World War. The new arrangement, composed in collaboration with André Vida and Olivier Goinard, also references another remarkable musical event: in 1986 Ronald McNair, one of the world’s first Black astronauts to reach space, had planned to play and record a saxophone solo on board the Space Shuttle Challenger. This would have been the first original piece of music recorded in space had not that journey been suddenly and tragically curtailed.
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[@pbarry25]

This was an amazing experience when we saw it last summer (we had previously seen "Rain" at the Cistern, also fantastic). Such a unique space for art and performances! Keep up the great work, y'all!

[@jillmoffitt5218]

We really enjoyed the experience. The water reflection and sound in the Cistern was perfect for this production.

[@gracacabreira]

Wonderful experience! Artistry in 3D, music, movement, mystery. Congrats!!!

[@buffalo-bayou]

Thank you for visiting!