Taylor Kuffner

Multi Media Performance Artist, Composer. In Japanese “zémi” is a name for the shrill loud insect, known in English as a cicada. A special bread of the cicada, known as the periodical cicada, has adapted a unique 17-year lifecycle. These insects present themselves on the surface of the earth for only a month; to mate, sing and die. There is a multitude of ancient stories from every continent about the cicada and their roll in the resurrection of passing souls. In moving I explore their contrast between patience and exhilaration; in hearing I listen for their composition like a frame in the world’s eye; and in living I feel their continuity in dying. Website: www.resonant-wave.net/zemi17htm