Houston, TX

Undercurrents

Name: Undercurrents
Start: 2027-01-24T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2027-01-24T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Undercurrents

This immersive installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer explores communication across time, space, and relationships through voices, light, and memory.

Hosted by Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern

2 events

Step into a resonant landscape of voices and light with Undercurrents, a new interactive art installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. This immersive experience transforms the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern into an echoing chamber of sound, illumination, and memory, revealing how communication travels across time, space, and human relationships. Undercurrents invites visitors to speak, listen, and reflect as voices are carried through a glowing network of light, creating a living, ever-changing environment shaped by those who enter.

Audience Role

Undercurrents invites visitors to speak, listen, and reflect as voices are carried through a glowing network of light, creating a living, ever-changing environment shaped by those who enter.

Ages: 10 +

Content Advisories

• Audio

• Flashing lights

• Moving lights

• No sexual content

• Use of sound and lighting effects

Interaction Advisories

• No physical contact with performers

Mobility Advisories

• Event is wheelchair accessible

• No mobility advisories

• Wheelchair accessible

Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern

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About Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern

The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern is a former drinking water reservoir built in 1926 for the City of Houston. BBP restored and repurposed the 87,500-square-foot Cistern into a magnificent public space for tours, performances, and art installations.