W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G

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artist multiples, 2020

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Who Yells So Intensely With Yearning Growl

Essay: Xuan Ye, 2018
Translation: Yijia Zhang, 2021
Proofread: Xuan Ye & Yijia Zhang, 2021
Sounds: Xuan Ye & Benjamin de Boer, 2021
Mix: Xuan Ye
Video: Xuan Ye

Wait Yes Someone’s Inside While Yapping Gasps

Poem: Benjamin de Boer, 2019
Sounds: Xuan Ye & Benjamin de Boer, 2021
Mix: Benjamin de Boer
Video: Xuan Ye

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installation view, Wear Your Soul in Wordy Yesterday Gold, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada, 2019. Photo by Polina Teif

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installation view, What You See is Where You Go, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada, 2018

W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G

installation view, AGYU Vitrines, Toronto, Canada, 2017. photo by Yuula Benivolski

W.Y.I.S.I.W.Y.G features the GUI caret icon as a light sculpture displayed against a patterned wall with checkers indicating transparency in graphic programs. The vitrine is hereby virtualized into a space that signifies a vacuum ad infinitum. Originally shown as What You See is Where You Go, the second iteration, Wear Your Soul in Wordy Yesterday Gold takes the idea of ultimate asemia further — on the blinking brink of “I”, we stand at the metalinguistic door and set our feet in the undertows of cyber sea, taking refuge in the noise, forever waiting on meanings to dawn.