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Make It Fit – A Life Script

Tingyi Jiang
Tue 17 Feb 20:30 - 21:30
Tue 17 Feb 2026
20:30 - 21:30
  • Tue 17 Feb 2026
    20:30 - 21:30
    Zaal 3, Den Haag
    De Constant Rebecqueplein 20-A
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“Make It Fit is the key to living.
Make It Fit is the essence of progress.
Fix it, to make it fit!”

This parody of authoritarian speech is repeated over and over until a personal vulnerability seeps through the mask of satire: How to fit in a way that escapes fitting in? How to carve space for the security and comfort that fitting in brings?

Make It Fit - A Life Script constructs an ordinary yet contrived situation. Blending forms, like: reality show, memory reenactment, public address, collective reading and artist talk, to embrace the ambiguity of fitting—and failing to fit in. The enacted script becomes a live negotiation between language, performance and power.

The audience is scripted to build, read and sing together—as an imaginary one—to examine how language performs us, and how we perform through language, by anatomizing the internalized life script of Make it fit.

Make It Fit — A Life Script seeks to create a poetic yet critical space where vulnerability, absurdity, sincerity, and resistance coexist. Here, life scripts are not simply reenacted but actively questioned, disrupted, and reimagined. The vitality of Make It Fit lies in spiraling and regenerating.

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  • The performance is English spoken.
  • Duration is 1 to 1,5 hours.
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About Tingyi Jiang

Tingyi Jiang is an artist and performer based in The Hague. She uses performance as a tool to engage with the world through her practice, which she calls situation-specific performance. By claiming the ‘situation’ as a stage, appropriating ‘rules’ as scores, and using ‘action’ as material, she transforms implicit social norms into performative acts—blending reality and fiction to explore themes of identity, memory, language, and authority.

At the heart of her work is the concept of ‘fitting’—both as a creative method and a critical lens. This inquiry led to her ongoing series Make It Fit (initiated in 2021), which examines how both individuals and structures of authority navigate to systems through the condition of ‘fit.’ The series spans a range of formats, including theater, interventions, publications, participatory events, performative texts and sound-based works.

No Dutch Required

Welcome to all our internationals and Anglophiles! Our No Dutch Required selection lists performances that are either English spoken, have English surtitles or that are without spoken text altogether.

Credits

concept, direction, text Tingyi Jiang
performance Tingyi Jiang, Lila Maria de Coninck, Lawrence McGuire, Jinglei Zhang, Maarten Keus
sound & vocal design Lawrence McGuire
performative installation Aldo Brinkhoff
live video Jinglei Zhang
scenography Maarten Keus
costumes Vincent Wong
music composition Andrzej Konieczny
production Anna Møller
dramaturgy Eva Lou
visual identity Bo Jiang
poster photography Andrea Bonderup

this project is realized with the support of Stroom Den Haag and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts

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