Scores of a grey hair — Xingyun Shen

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

d. Scores of a grey hair
‘Scores of a grey hair’ is an installation and public reading of the documentations of a grieving ritual. This ritual involved a daily convening with my grief-garment (a purple lambswool cardigan that belonged to my late grandmother) and the grey hairs that remained on its surface. Each time I practiced the ritual, I recorded my thoughts, sensations and silences on paper. Performing Scores of a grey hair served as an externalisation of this grief, a desire to speak pain and loss into existence. In a black box, powered by tears, sweat and heat, I read aloud these private documentations I have held in my chest.

Currently, I am working on consolidating a score that centres the practice of grieving with a grief-garment.

2025–Present

Send me a letter sxingyun@gmail.com • Jul 2025