MAKE IT FIT

- A Speech Act

Performance,25min
2024

This performance is a speech, a manifesto, a concert, and a ritual. ‘Make It Fit’ permeated in performances, language, systems, and our daily lives. Through spoken words, live instruments, and movement, with rhythmic repetition and theatrical reenactment, the textual and conceptual aspects of ‘Make It Fit’ are peeled back layer by layer. 'Fitting' evolves from a state of unconscious conformity and passive acquiescence into a strategic tool for acquiring the power of voicing.

MAKE IT FIT

- Performing in the Form of a Thesis

Performance/Publication
2024

This performance is writing a thesis. It is a Situation-Specific Performance where the mandatory graduation requirement is turned into performance art that blends academic research and artistic practice together. By performing ‘what should be performed’ in the context of ‘writing a thesis’, the artist unpacks her personal relationship with language, text, writing, accent, and speech to explore the performances and performativity of both individuals and authorities within the context of social norms, and how these normalised social actions and artistic performances interact with one another.

Home, Sick Home

Daily Performance / Instant Composition
100 Days
2022

A hundred-day performance, featuring a hundred days of instant composition through live recording, with a hundred tracks uploaded online daily without post-editing.

Exploring the diaspora through sound, from the cultural and political memory of broadcasts to the intimate spaces of my daily activities. This project blends isolated sonic spaces: from state apparatuses to private rooms, from Western public spaces to Eastern musical memories, opening up a new field in-between through performativity.

I am listening, living, performing, practicing, and researching within this 'in-between.'

Caution Wet Floor

Performance
2022

Cleaning the floor is an act of caring for or maintaining a space; but can it also be aggressive? Can it become a tool to occupy space by leveraging others' respect for this work?

Give Sound A Ride

Performance
2023

A mobile welcome improv concert; it is a gesture of hospitality and an exploration of the relationship between space, sound, and others. As performers and ushers, we improvise experimental sound pieces while also offering audiences a ride and a warm welcome.

LEAVMI ALONE

Design/Performance
2020

A deliberate misreading of an IKEA instruction manual resulted in the creation of a dysfunctional chair, a rebellious piece of furniture. When it was placed back in the IKEA showroom with a label identical to the other products, this oddity seemed to blend in seamlessly, going unnoticed by both customers and staff.

This piece is a humorous intervention, not much to explain—please leave me alone.

SCLPT

Performance
2021-2022

Remodels the space into a sonic apparatus.

Spatial exploration through movement and sound creates a scenario where these two elements listen, illuminate, intertwine, merge, break, and search for balance under the influence of gravity, generating continuous feedback.

Sù 塑

Performance
2020

When too much becomes nothing
and nothing becomes to much

Performance
2023

Tingyi Jiang

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