Anri Sala: Time No Longer

Our second curated public art installation in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, two years in the making, is a site-specific immersive artwork commissioned from internationally-renowned artist Anri Sala.

Time No Longer fully activates the unique underground space with a 13-minute CGI film of a turntable rotating in zero gravity in the International Space Station (ISS).  The turntable’s stylus, the lead “actor” in the film, invokes an acrobatic intelligence with its intermittent playing of a rearranged Olivier Messiaen composition on the vinyl record.  Lighting effects complete the experience as they cycle through a truncated sunrise/sunset sequence, much as is experienced on the ISS.