Performance 'Make It Fit – A Life Script' by alum Tingyi Jiang

Subsequently, the performance will also be on view at de Tempel Amsterdam on 13 December and in Het Nationale Theater on 17 February. Scroll down for tickets.

“Make It Fit is the key to living.
Make It Fit is the essence of progress.
Fix it, to make it fit!”

About the performance

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, speech, 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.

Tingyi developed her 2024 graduation work into a new form in collaboration with several KABK alumni and current students:

Lila Maria de Coninck (ArtScience BA, 2026)
Jinglei Zhang ( ArtScience BA, 2027)
Maarten Keus (IMD BA, 2020)
Aldo Brinkhoff (ArtScience MA 2023)
Vincent Wong (Fashion BA, 2019)
Andrzej Konieczny (ArtScience MA 2023)
Andrea Bonderup(Photography BA, 2024)

Credit:

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