Tingyi Jiang

Make It Fit is a key of living, Make It Fit is the essence of progress!

Make It Fit is a performance, functioning as speech, manifesto, poetry, concert, and ritual. It constructs a theatrical situation through the precise composition of spoken words, live instruments, scenography, and meticulous mechanical enactments. The phrase “Make It Fit” recurs throughout the performance in varying contexts and rhythms. Appropriating the language of propaganda by grotesque chanting, stating disassembling, contextualising, and repeating, language becomes the in-between of sound and sense, signal and noise, narrative and poetry. The impossibility of perfect execution of ‘script’ introduces awkwardness and humor, creating absurdity within the solemn scenario. The self behind the authoritative character gradually emerges, revealing vulnerability beneath the rigorous apparatus and personal memories shaped by collective consensus.

Make It Fit explores the performances and performativity of both individuals and authorities within the context of social norms, and examines how these normalized social actions and artistic performances interact. This simple and general yet abstract phrase generates the fictional ideology of “Make It Fit-ism.” It provokes diverse questions: What is fit? How to fit? Why fit? And what types of language and voices can be widely heard in the current society?

Make It Fit addresses political urgencies, institutional critique and identity politics. While we search for a 'fitting' way to escape the confines of 'fitting in,’ we also yearn for the security and comfort that ‘fitting’ brings. 

This piece fits awkwardly and harmoniously in the most beautiful meeting room of KABK.

Performance schedule: Thursday 27 June 20:00 | Friday 28 June 15:00, 19:00 | Saturday 29 June 20:00 | Sunday 30 June 15:00, 19:00 | Monday 1 July 15:00, 19:00 | Tuesday 2 July 15:00, 19:00