After a day of outdoor activities like riding, running, climbing, and paddling, unwind at night with an experience at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Share this outdoor adventure with your loved ones.
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — On September 4, 2024, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will open Time Loop by Klip Collective: A Forest Light Experience. Inspired by the museum’s sprawling wilderness, the acclaimed creative studio will present a light and sound experience that leans into the passage of time and changing environment, unraveling as a mesmerizing journey through space and time.

Designed exclusively for the museum’s North Forest, this outdoor, site-responsive experience will feature six large-scale installations: Endless Overture, Life Cycle, Repeater, Broken Time Machine, Infinite Wave, and Hereafter. Guests will witness the natural rhythms of the earth brought to life, see themselves fractured across the surface of a broken time machine, marvel together at the movements of the forest in a landscape of light, and more. Backed by a custom soundtrack and open during the Ozarks’ most beautiful season, Time Loop will offer a dynamic outdoor experience unlike any in Northwest Arkansas.
“Time Loop is going to be the best kind of surprise for our visitors,” said Alejo Benedetti, the museum’s curator of contemporary art. “At night, the right artist can completely transform the North Forest into something mesmerizing. Klip Collective created a brilliant balance between a stunning, colorful, and fun experience that is also a deeply smart reflection on the familiar, strange, and mysterious march of time. You’re going to be swept up while you’re here, but you’re going to keep thinking about this one long after you leave.”
In Time Loop, Klip Collective uses digital mapping technology to create light projections animating the forest landscapes in wondrous and melodic ways. In their hands, the North Forest will become a site of exploration, where time moves forward, backward, pauses, breaks, slips, and blurs. The sound and light installations scattered throughout the landscape will transform concepts of time into an embodied experience that can be seen and heard, guiding visitors through the dark as they pause at stops along an endless, infinite loop of time.

© Klip Collective
“Focusing on ‘time’ as the common thread was an inspiring starting point in the creative process and it manifested differently in each piece,” said Ricardo Rivera, creative director and founder of Klip Collective. “We experimented with time and the moving image, entropy, temporal processing shifts, and symphonic visualizations. We’re particularly excited to show our first series of video sculptures in Life Cycle, a reflection on the cycles and transformations of energy in nature.”
Time Loop is on view in the North Forest at Crystal Bridges Wednesdays through Sundays from September 4, 2024, through January 5, 2025. Tickets to the experience are timed and cost $25 for adults and $15 for youth (11-18 years old). Tickets for Crystal Bridges members are $20 for adults, $12 for youth. Children 10 and under are free. Tickets can be purchased on the museum’s website. For more information on the experience and related programming, please visit the Time Loop webpage.
Time Loop by Klip Collective: A Forest Light Experience is sponsored by Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation, Inc. and Sue and Charles Redfield.
Lead photo info: Klip Collective Be Seeing You, 2021 Site-specific video, light, and audio installation in the Maple Allée at Grounds for Sculpture © Klip Collective