Touki Delphine | FIREBIRD

FIREBIRD by Touki Delphine, an interactive art installation featuring more than 500 recycled car lights, is returning to the Momentary for a limited time. The installation made its Arkansas debut at Momentous 2025 at the Momentary. 

FIREBIRD is both a concert and an otherworldly light show. Inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s 1919 Firebird Suite, a unique orchestra of more than 500 recycled car lights unleashes a hypnotic choreography of light and sound upon the audience. Together, they bring the mythical firebird to life in an overwhelming visual and musical spectacle, described by the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant as, “Like God playing a video game on stained-glass windows.” 

Currently touring the United States, Touki Delphine, by invitation, scoured American car graveyards to create an XL, transatlantic version of their iconic installation. Amsterdam-based Touki Delphine (Bo Koek, Rik Elstgeest, Chris Doyle and John van Oostrum) is a boundary-pushing collective of musicians, performers, and visual artists making waves nationally and internationally with their monumental light and sound installations made from recycled materials.   

FIREBIRD is free to see; no tickets required. 

Sensory Advisory: This performance includes brightly flashing lights and atmospheric effects that might be triggering for guests with sensitivities to flashing lights or neurodiverse guests prone to sensory overstimulation. Viewer discretion is advised.

About Touki Delphine

Amsterdam-based Touki Delphine (Bo Koek, Rik Elstgeest, Chris Doyle and John van Oostrum) is a boundary-pushing collective of musicians, performers, and visual artists making waves nationally and internationally with their monumental light and sound installations made from recycled materials. Their work creates poetic encounters between humans and machines. Inspired by natural phenomena, the climate crisis and the idea of nature as a living whole, they explore how technology can not only alienate but also connect.