Tingyi Jiang is a multidisciplinary artist and performer based in The Hague. She graduated from the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Art and the Conservatory of The Hague.

Tingyi is deeply interested in the concetp of ‘performance as a means of engaging with the world’, which she explores through her practice, what she calls "situation-specific performance." This practice focuses on the idea of "fitting," treating it as both the conceptual foundation of her work and a method for learning, reflecting, and creating. In doing so, she creates a space for contemplation: "What is ‘fitting’, What does it mean to fit”. Her work delves into how these phenomena relate to societal systems and influence our everyday behaviors. Tingyi claims "situation" as a stage, appropriates "rules" as a score, and uses “action” as material for her work. By repeating, reconfiguring, and reconstructing these elements, she creates new theatrical and fictional situations that blend reality and fiction. Audience interaction and response are often integral to her performances, and feed back into the situation.

Within this framework, she investigates themes of identity, memory, the performativity of language, and the relationship between the individual and authority.

As both a maker and performer, Tingyi has collaborated with various artists and has showcased her work at venues and events such as Fiber Festival, GOGBOT Festival, Korzo Theater, Melkweg Amsterdam, Contour Biennale 10, ISEA2022, CTM x Athens Epidaurus Festival, This Art Festival, iii workspace, Het Hem, V2_,  VIERNULVIER, and Zaal 3 Den Haag.

Education

- 2020--2024
BA ArtScience Interfaculty
Royal Academy of Art and Conservatory The Hague

-Sep,2022- Jan.2023
BA Performance(Exchange Programe)
KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Ghent

- 2015--2016
Exchange Programe Graphic Design / Media Production
Coventry University, United Kingdom

- 2013--2017
BA Advertising
Communication University of China, Nanjing

Experience

-2023
[Innovative laboratory-atelier] Sound Arguments, Ghent/The Hague/Leiden

- 2021
[Internship] iii workspace, The Hague
[Residency] Kiberdob exchange project at Paikka, Nagymaros/ Budapest

-2019
[Screening] Saigon Experimental Film Festival, Ho Chi Minh City

- 2018
[Internship] HOW Art Museum, Shanghai
[Exhibition] A Beautiful Identity, Shanghai

- 2017
[Work] Graphic Designer at OMD, Shanghai
[Public Installation] <X.Lab> , Communication University of China, Nanjing
[Commission Work] Shanghai Fashion Week, Shanghai

-2016
[Internship] Brand Union, Shanghai

-2015
[Internship] Favotell, London

Award

iii Encouragement Opportunity 2024

Events/Performance

-2024
[What Is Manifesto] Flipchart, iii workspace, The Hague
[Make It Fit] Playground, Korzo Theater, The Hague
[Make It Fit] Gogbot Festival, Rijksmuseum twenthe/Black Brick, Enschede, Netherlands
[Make It Fit]  Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam.
[Make It Fit] Graduation Show, Royal Acadmy of Art, The Hague
[Make It Fit] ArtScience Preview Graduation Show, de Helena, The Hague

-2023
[Id] CON10UR, Museum Busleyden, Mechelen
[(Sketches for) XII]  Viernulvier, Ghent
[Pound it!] Fiber Festival, Oedipus, Amsterdam
[Home, Sick Home] On Air - On Site, Online Radio
[Number 0] POING, Rotterdam
[Give Sound A Ride] Safe Space For Stupid Ideas, Waterkant, The Hague
[When too much becomes nothing and nothing becomes too much] Zaal3, The Hague


-2022
[Pound it!] MOVE! A Distant Memory, The Grey Space In the Middle, The Hague
[Pound it!] Test_Lab: Summer Session, V2_ Rotterdam
[Pound it!] Traumburg Festival, Germany
[Ventriloquist Ontology] ISEA2022, Barcelona
[Ventriloquist Ontology] CTM X Athens Epidaurus Festival, Athens
[SCLPT] Traversing Bodies, Het HEM, Zaandam
[Make it fit] Home-Frontiers of the Domestic,my home, The Hague
[Elbows On The Table] Korzo, The Hague
[SCLPT]Evidence in Motion, iii workspace, The Hague
[Midnight Wellness Retreat] The Performance Bar, Rotterdam
[Togethere] Zaal3, The Hague


-2021
[Incidental Realities] Paikka, Budapest
[SCLPT] FÜZZ, Cultuurlab,Delft
[Midnight Wellness Retreat] MOVE!, The Grey Space In the Middle, The Hague
[Elbows On The Table] Front Row Festival, Radion, Amsterdam
[Ventriloquist Ontology] Soft Control, iii workspace, The Hague
[SCLPT] Traumburg Festival, Germany
[Sculpt: Undetected Existence] Nature, Melancholy in the Anthropocene, Church, The Hague
[Elbows On The Table] This Art Festival, De Kromhouthal, Amsterdam
[Poly-ability] CLOUD/Danslab, The Hague