Posts from ‘August, 2009’

DON JUAN de WINE-LOVER

“Panchita mia will bring us the wine,

And the casa is yours, señor.” Don Juan – by Lucius Harwood Foote

(Byron as Don Juan, with Haidee, Alexander Marie Colin, 1831)
The legendary Don Juan de Wine-Lover has been a lover of grape varieties and seducer of wine regions for years; his exploits are noted throughout literature and music by Apollinaire, [...]

ONE YEAR PERFORMANCE: WINE-JAIL PIECE

                                                  August 24, 2009

(TEHCHING HSIEH PERFORMANCE: CAGE-PIECE)
STATEMENT
I, Brad Lee Nichols, Tehching Hsieh’s Ghost, plan to do a one year performance piece, to begin on August 24, 2009.
I shall seal myself in a wine cellar, in solitary confinement inside a wine cellar measuring “24 f” “17 f 7-1/2 I” (the measurement of Thomas Jefferson’s legendary wine cellar at Monticello).
I [...]