Zach Lanoue

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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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