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The big leagues called + Coyote Time answered 🗞️ Charlene K. Lau for @friezeofficial: ‘Coyote Time’ Presents Public Art for Trying Times Jeremy D. Goodwin for @stlpublicradio: Counterpublic art show returns to St. Louis streets, parks, museums and beyond Nathan Vickers for @kmovnews4: Counterpublic exhibition returns to St. Louis, featuring dozens of public installations Annabel Keenan for @theartnewspaper.official: Can triennials reduce their environmental impact? St Louis’s Counterpublic hopes to be a model Sara Reisman for @hyperallergic: The Counterpublic Triennial’s New Kind of Public Space Ben Davis for @artnet: A Plague of Padded-Out Art Shows—and Other Art World Matters Eileen G’Sell for @hyperallergic: The Counterpublic Triennial Pollinates a Budding St. Louis Ellen Eberhardt for @dezeen: Nicholas Galanin “interrupts sightline” of Gateway Arch with animal-hide sculpture Sam Bruemmer for @theunews: Counterpublic and the Grand Center Arts District build the near future with radical community engagement Suzanne Vanderhoef for HEC-TV: Coyote Time: 50 Artists Transform St. Louis Through Public Art
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St. Louis & Counterpublic 2026 🧡
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Anika Todd’s Siren Song made from municipal tornado sirens and field recordings of the Mississippi River. Todd creates site-responsive interventions that call attention to property ownership, city infrastructure, and human attempts to control the environment. Siren Song is made from an array of alarm sirens that sit near the floodwall in Chouteau’s Landing, a historic industrial neighborhood shaped by its access to river shipping and railroads. The floodwall was built in response to worsening floods following the rechanneling of the Mississippi River—conditions that have grown more frequent and intense with climate change. Instead of a distress call, the sirens play the sound of flowing water, programmed to match the volume and intensity of passing trains and industrial traffic. Its volume and intensity sometimes draw visitors closer and other times repel them. Todd developed this project after the May 2025 tornado, when the city’s alarm system largely failed due to absent staff and a faulty siren system. Todd’s work functions both as a warning system and as an instrument that calls attention to the river. This project is supported by The Hearthland Foundation. At 101 Chouteau @anikatodd @counterpublic #anikatodd #counterpublic
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I haven’t shared in awhile but this was very special to me 💐🙏. It’s a privilege to experience art with friends you care about, thank you Counterpublic for having me these last few days. Even more amazing is when all the work (I got to see) feels so compelling. One of my favorite things was how it felt really cosmopolitan and down to earth at the same time. How folks come up with dream teams of curators I have no idea but grateful to bask in the art: one example is the first pic of Lynne Smith’s “The Unloading Dock,” a lotus pond on a currently remediating Superfund site grown with harvested rainwater. These are mostly photos of people + only a fraction of all the works, very grateful to all the humans who hosted + co-existed with me. Thank you Coyote Time it really is a special show everyone please go see it :) There are multiple other shows in the St. Louis area as well that I’m sure are amazing I just didn’t get to see them🙏💐🥲👏. #counterpublic #stlouis #sauget #coyotetime
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Counterpublic opening weekend is here! We’re finally opening after this triennial has been in the making for more than two years. I’m grateful to the artists, my co-curators, the team, supporters, collaborators, community partners, and everyone else who has made this possible. Some install shots and soon more to come! @counterpublic @jamesxmcanally @jordancartercarter @raphaphon @prometheanwatch @criticalnish #counterpublic
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Opening, Talks + Performances: Mississippi Riverfront + Chouteau’s Landing Sat, Sep 12, 2026 3–5PM 101 Chouteau Ave, St. Louis, MO 63102 FREE TO ALL. Coyote Time opens 9/10/2026.
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Artist Anika Todd walks us through the process of their work in Coyote Time Anika Todd @anikatodd is an artist and educator whose work investigates Western principles of property that authorize human control of earth and sky. Reaching into the air and below the ground, Todd uses sculpture and video to reconfigure materials and imaging techniques historically used for surveillance and the control of public space, repurposing them for collective and playful use. Todd earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and currently teaches sculpture at the Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University in St. Louis. They have created site-specific outdoor works for NON STNDRD @stndrdexhibitions, MO (2025), and have presented solo exhibitions at Erin Cluley Projects, TX (2024); Lydian Stater, NY (2023); and Flux Factory, NY (2021). They have participated in residencies nationally and internationally, including the NARS Foundation (2020) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019). They received an Austin Cultural Arts Council Award in 2019 and were a finalist for the NYFA Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Award in 2022. Anika Todd’s commission is curated by Stefanie Hessler @steffihessler @counterpublic brings Coyote Time to St. Louis this fall. Experience our Triennial exhibition from September 12–December 12, 2026. Video produced by Justin Solomon + Nyara Williams of NEU ER WORLD @neuer.world
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The river is a magical place My film+phone photos from our many class trips to the river @anikatodd ⭐️ ft. bits from pandora's very large crochet hook alejandra's quilt and my sun seeking device
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“The salt flats offer a certain kind of frame. A space where ground is brighter than sky, so our orientation is flipped. In search of a point of reference, it has been described as an alien landscape or a white gallery wall, turned flat; in either form, we are out of context.“ 💪 Anika Todd’s project began as a simple experiment: a camera lifted into the air over the Wendover Salt Flats by a weather balloon, tethered to the ground by a string. It grew into an essay and two channel video installation exploring a human desire for speed and inhabiting the sky.
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“The Wendover Historic Airfield Museum says it was for American glory. But when I look at the faces of the smiling pilots in the archival photos, I read something more like escape. Not in a nationalistic sense, but a personal hunger—a desire to shed an earthbound weight.“ 💪 Anika Todd’s video essay, Tether, questions what is lost when a place is understood from above without maintaining a connection to the ground it surveys. Watch, listen, or read at the link in our bio.
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Tether is a video essay that began as a simple experiment: a camera lifted into the air over the Wendover Salt Flats by a weather balloon, tethered to the ground by a string. The video essay situates this footage within the history of Wendover, where the bombsight for the atomic bomb was developed during World War II, and examines how framing operates in both military and artistic contexts. At its core, Tether challenges the idea of a “god’s-eye view” as neutral or objective, asking what is lost when a place is understood from above without maintaining a connection to the ground it surveys. 💪 Anika Todd (b. 1992, Boston, MA) is an artist and educator whose work investigates Western principles of property that authorize human control of earth and sky. Todd earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and currently teaches sculpture at the Sam Fox School of Art and Design in MO. They have created site-specific outdoor works for Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, TX (2024) and NONstndrd, MO (2025), and have presented solo exhibitions at Erin Cluley Projects, TX (2024); Lydian Stater, NY (2023); and Flux Factory, NY (2021). Todd has participated in residencies nationally and internationally, including the NARS Foundation (2020) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019). They received an Austin Cultural Arts Council Award in 2019 and were a finalist for the NYFA Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Award in 2022.
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OUT NOW 🚘️🛣️🛞🗺️🚦 Our Spring-Summer issue, The Road. ⁠ ⁠ Join us in journeying across roads, byways, footpaths, and portals across the Southwest—spanning three time zones and more than 1700 miles.⁠ ⁠ Along the way, we follow contemporary and historical artists who travel at a distinctly human pace, treating roads as singular places rather than liminal spaces. They dig into physical and conceptual layers of roads, cracking pockets of deep time or surging toward imagined futures.⁠ ⁠ We hope this issue reconstitutes even the busiest Southwest arteries as conduits that tether far-flung places and people. These stories assign human stakes and moral weight to epic movement.⁠ ⁠ There are multiple on-ramps to dive in: ⁠ ⁠ ⭐️ Become a SWC Member to receive this issue, plus access to our Art Opportunity Index and Art Industry newsletter, among other perks. ⁠ ⁠ ⭐️ Order a copy through our online store (use coupon code SWCROAD15 for 15% off). ⁠ ⁠ ⭐️ Visit southwestcontemporary.com to start exploring this issue online, always free. ⁠ ⁠ Find all of these paths at the links in our bio. ⁠ ⁠ These images are just a taste of this issue, and all tagged as available. Find full image credits within the corresponding articles. ⁠ ⁠ #swcontemporary #artmagazine #theroad
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