Make It Fit – A Life Script
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Tue 17 Feb 202620:30 - 21:20Zaal 3, Den HaagDe Constant Rebecqueplein 20-A
vrije plaatskeuze Regular € 16,50 Youths up to and including the age of 30 € 12,50 Student € 5
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.
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.
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