# ‘Coyote Time’ reimagines civic renewal

https://chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/art-feature/coyote-time-counterpublic-st-louis/

Cruising through Gateway Arch under an 8-bit tangerine sunset, Alice Bucknell’s video game Coyote Time moves in “C-time” or sideways time, transposing us from both sides of the Mississippi, to Kenny’s Upstairs (once key to the global underground electronic music scene), to a now defunct riverboat casino, to the City Museum, where Bucknell’s text-based prompt game is homed till December. Following the logic of forgiveness mechanics while presenting art in the public sphere, the third edition of Counterpublic adopts its title and rationale from the idea of hang-time—where a player is

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Created: 2026-10-23T02:32:02.209623+00:00

Last edited: 2026-10-23T02:32:02.209623+00:00

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Original source: https://chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/art-feature/coyote-time-counterpublic-st-louis/