CICADA ENTERPRISES

SF, NYC, NOLA, PDX, etc
1995-1997

SUMMARY: ACCOMPLICE. In a saga of interwoven plotlines and ambitions, GK admits full complicity, following the same course as described by ATK below. A further record may or may not be included here or elsewhere up ahead. That record may or may not include many nights of cicada activity, the greyblock graffiti artist, the question of remaining documentation and the campaign: “Survival by Saturaturation: Fame by Reproduction”

From ATK: Cicada Enterprises was a company founded by Aaron Taylor Kuffner in San Francisco in 1995 as part of a conceptual art work. The art work itself was an elaborate guerrilla advertising campaign centered around the insect cicada and various mythologies about the insect throughout history. In 1996 and 1997 Kuffner became one of the most prolific street artists of the time in New Orleans. He used stencils and wheat pastes on buildings, as well as pocket placing (the opposite of pick pocketing) fact cards, using sale tag guns in clothing stores and creating a product suite of stickers, napkins, toilet paper and wearable items. Kuffner was eventually apprehended and subsequently dropped the moniker completely at the end of the summer of 1997. He did not mention the artwork for the following 10 years until the statute of limitations was met. All documentation is assumed to be destroyed.