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.
Tingyi’s methodology centers on performative scores that offer structure while leaving room for contingency and improvisation. Guided by conceptual rules, the performer’s embodied, responsive presence engages in a live negotiation with the situation.
Her practice is continuously shaped by its context. In response to cultural funding cuts and growing institutional pressures, it becomes a structural experiment in adaptive, sustainable performance-making. Within this framework, ‘fitting’ evolves from an act of submission into a performative negotiation—a space for reclaiming voice, narrative, and presence.
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, Teatro Municipal do Porto, ISEA2022, CTM x Athens Epidaurus Festival, This Art Festival, iii workspace, Het Hem, V2_, VIERNULVIER, and Zaal 3 Den Haag.
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.
Tingyi’s methodology centers on performative scores that offer structure while leaving room for contingency and improvisation. Guided by conceptual rules, the performer’s embodied, responsive presence engages in a live negotiation with the situation.
Her practice is continuously shaped by its context. In response to cultural funding cuts and growing institutional pressures, it becomes a structural experiment in adaptive, sustainable performance-making. Within this framework, ‘fitting’ evolves from an act of submission into a performative negotiation—a space for reclaiming voice, narrative, and presence.
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, Teatro Municipal do Porto, 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
-2024
[Resiency] iii workspace, The Hague
[Conversation] Radio WORM X iii
-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/Funding
Stroom Den Haag Pro Research, 2025iii Encouragement Opportunity 2024
Events/Performance
-2024
[What is a Manifesto] Flipchart, iii workspace, The Hague
[Make It Fit-A Speech Act] Playground, Korzo Theater, The Hague
Make It Fit-A Speech ActGogbot Festival, Rijksmuseum twenthe/Black Brick, Enschede, Netherlands
Make It Fit-A Speech Act Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam.
Make It Fit-A Speech Act Graduation Show, Royal Acadmy of Art, The Hague
[Make It Fit-A Speecj Act] 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