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WRONG CLOTHES TONIGHT @ YES.OUI.SI.

Posted on October 13, 2011 by HANNAH MARTIN


Zach Lanoue, the Yes.Oui.Si. staple with a penchant for wearing tank tops as skirts, is throwing the space’s first-ever fashion show tonight. And in true Lanoue fashion, he’s doing everything all wrong.

“The fashion show is a way of demonstrating the idea of wrong clothes in a very tactile and easy to understand way,” Lanoue explains. “The easiest way [to understand the show] is to see the actual pieces of clothing worn wrong in front of you.”

Lanoue’s exhibition, Wrong Clothes, challenging binaries of gender and fashion, is now on extended run until October 22. Continue reading →

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YES.OUI.SI. + PBR: DRINK & DRAW @ ZUZU

Posted on October 3, 2011 by HANNAH MARTIN

PBR, tunes and cheap art? Ok, twist my arm.

Tonight at Zuzu, the Yes.Oui.Si. kids will be drinking and drawing. Partnering with PBR (talk of free beer has been whispered but not confirmed) they’ll seat ten artists at a bar who normally work with sculpture, paint and more conceptual mediums. Tonight they’ll be confined to pen and paper. Finished works will be tacked up for sale through the night, with prices starting at $1. Artists include Yes.Oui.Si staples Adrian Molina, Michael Miguel Horowitz, Bill Maass, Olivia Ives-Flores, Zach Lanoue, Liz Vuong and more.

The Dukes County Love Affair, Full Tang, and DJ Cartel will take the stage and in true Zuzu fashion, dancing should ensue. Continue reading →

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PHANTASMA: ZACH LANOUE

Posted on September 10, 2011 by HANNAH MARTIN

Zach Lanoue is sitting on a segment of stump. He’s hunched over a glass tabletop, outlining a contorted human figure in candy red paint. His clothes are more or less “right” – hoodie, black pants, shoes.

“I’ve been crossdressing for years,” Lanoue says. He stops. Later he explains: “It was more of an impulse when I was 13 or so and I started wearing non-male-specific clothing and wearing clothing in their not specific orientations on the body. Continue reading →

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AMALGAMATE

Posted on April 20, 2011 by HEATHER VANDENENGEL
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The love story between technology and art is not simple or sweet. There is no bouquet of roses or shy smiles. Instead, it goes something like this: technology meets art. Technology brings art back to its work shop and technology and art ravage each other for hours between sheets of metal in an orgasmic creation of sound, software and light. Technology and art spawn a hacked and hybrid family … on stimulating display at the Yes Oui Si Space. Continue reading →

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GIMME SHELTER: HYENA

Posted on March 1, 2011 by CLAY ADAMCZYK
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It’s been my intention with Gimme Shelter to highlight and give much deserved nods to the gargantuan amount of local talent that has this fair city busting at its seams, even though a great deal of it is hidden deep within the woodwork or, quite literally, beneath the floorboards in basements. The key word there–with “talent” being the given–is “local,” but one band, Hyena, quickly became the first exception to this self imposed standard. Continue reading →

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