Jul 25, 2024 New, nighttime installation explores landscapes of time, space, and wonder in the North Forest Klip Collective, Infinite Wave, 2022, Video, light on aluminium sculpture, and audio, 17 ft. 8 in. x 17 ft. x 18 ft. © Klip Collective Download high-resolution images. 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 for visitors. 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. “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. ### About Klip Collective Founded in 2003, Klip Collective is a collaborative group of artists, sound designers, composers, and technologists. Each member brings their unique skillset together to create sensorial experiments that charm, inspire, and transport viewers the world over. In speaking about this project at Crystal Bridges, Klip’s founder and creative director, Ricardo Rivera, said, “We’re honored to have the opportunity to transform Crystal Bridges’ North Forest space with new site-specific audio and visual installations. Our exhibit will showcase a layered, meditative experience. Through sonic and illuminated landscapes, our work will explore cycles in nature and experiment with distortions in time.” This exhibition is curated by Alejo Benedetti, curator of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary. About Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art The mission of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is to welcome all to celebrate the American spirit in a setting that unites the power of art with the beauty of nature. Since opening in 2011, the museum has welcomed more than 12.2 million visitors across its spaces, with no cost for admission. Crystal Bridges was founded in 2005 as a non-profit charitable organization by arts patron and philanthropist, Alice Walton. The collection spans five centuries of American masterworks from early American to current day and is enhanced by temporary exhibitions. The museum is nestled on 120 acres of Ozark landscape and was designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie. A rare Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house was preserved and relocated to the museum grounds in 2015. Crystal Bridges offers public programs including lectures, performances, classes, and teacher development opportunities. Some 418,375 school children have participated in the Willard and Pat Walker School Visit program, which provides educational experiences for school groups at no cost to the schools. Additional museum amenities include a restaurant, gift store, library, and five miles of art and walking trails. In February 2020, the museum opened the Momentary in Downtown Bentonville (507 SE E Street), conceived as a platform for the art, food, and music of our time. In 2026, Crystal Bridges will complete a nearly 100,000 square foot expansion that will allow the museum to expand access for all. For more information, visit CrystalBridges.org. The museum is located at 600 Museum Way, Bentonville, Arkansas 72712. Media Contact: media@crystalbridges.org.
