Xingyun Shen
Is

Fermenting 
    a. Clothes Press
    b. Marginalia Book Club
    c. Wardrobe interviews
    d. Scores of a grey hair
Publishing
    e. Feel this, it’s still warm
    f. Will You Bring Your Book to dblspce
    g. The Journal of Wear
    h. What You Are Looking For Is...
    i. Marginalia 7 to 16
    j. MANIFESTO
Reading 
    k. Residency, Will You Bring Your Book
Writing
    l. Published articles
    m. ↗ Measuring Our Impact
    n. ↗ Inside Our Wardrobe
    o. ↗ Envisioning the Clothes Swapping Movement            
Speaking 
    p. Conferences
    q. Podcasts
    r. Interviews



↗CV

 
f. Will You Bring Your Book to dblspce
Will You Bring Your Book to dblspce is a place-specific publication that documents the marginalia collected in June 2024 during my residency at dblspce, Singapore. 

For four weeks, Will You Bring Your Book was a marginalia-curious communal library with an invitation to bring any text-based material they wished to read and annotate with others. Visitors brought textbooks, novels, publications, handmade zines, photocopied texts, manuals, comics, and fan fiction, and read along with each other. Here, along with, refers not only to the gathering of reading bodies but also the collision of reading minds that meet in the margins of pages via marginalia. In these spontaneous responses to the primary text or other readers' marginalia, a lineage of imprints relating to other imprints is created. 

This collection of contextual marginalia makes public a multiplicity of knowledge by whiting out primary texts and leaving only marginalia in the page spaces. These spaces, filled with personalised annotations differentiated through various penmanship, become sites for collective reflection and conversation-making. With this, I ask, “How can marginalia become a vehicle for space-making for individuals and their communities?” 
Find physical copies at San Serriffe (Amsterdam, NL) and Torpedo Books (Oslo, NO).
     2024–2025
    Designed by Kasper Quaink
    
    Size: 176x250 (B5)
    Binding: Glue Bind
    Typefaces: Baskervville, Authentic Sans, Menlo Display, Wingdings 1, 2, 3
    Paper: Paperwise 80g/m2
    Print speed offset wit 300g/m2
    Gmund hanf 330g/m2 (bookmark)
    Publisher: Clothes Press

           

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