Xuan Ye

ERROAR!#04 The Oral Logic

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Installation view at ERROAR!, Center for Culture and Technology, Toronto, 2025.
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Installation view at ERROAR!, Center for Culture and Technology, Toronto, 2025.
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Installation view at ERROAR!, Center for Culture and Technology, Toronto, 2025.
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Installation view at Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, 2019.
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Installation view at Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, 2019.
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Installation view at Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, 2019.
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Installation view at Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, 2019.

ERROAR!#04 The Oral Logic brings together text, image, and sculptural form in a continuous flow framed by biblical creation stories and the paleontological image of the saber-tooth, evolution’s over-engineered apparatus with “too much tooth for this world.” The installation consists of three interlinked elements: a single-channel video remix of stock footage retelling the early AI anecdote of “virtual cannibalism”; a generative poem, Miltonic in cadence but gibberish in sense, scrolling like a manuscript from the fangs of a malformed saber-tooth skull; a webcam–mirror feedback loop that uses object-detection software fixed at eye level, misrecognizing faces as objects and enacting a metaphoric autophagy of human–machine interaction.

when
2019, 2025
series
ERROAR!

related events

2026
The Other Film Festival
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff
2025
ERROAR!
curated by Talia Golland
The Centre for Culture and Technology, Toronto
2019
Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto

related texts

2020
Emily Fitzpatrick, The Oral Logic by Xuan Ye
Peripheral Review
exhibition review
2020
Joy Xiang, Xuan Ye: The Oral Logic
Canadian Art Magazine (Spring 2020)
exhibition review