Make It Fit is Tingyi’s ongoing artistic research and practice. This phrase serve as a title, concept, and method, guiding the creation of diverse works across various contexts and mediums.

Make It Fit is a performance enacted by everyone in their daily lives.

Make It Fit explores the performativity of language: it is an advice, command, solution, and an answer that provokes further questions.

Make It Fit is a 'Situation-Specific Performance,' —situational, relational, personal, and universal.

Make It Fit is a strategic tool for acquiring the power of voicing.

Make It Fit - A Speech Act

Performance, 25min, 2024

Staged performance combined spoken word, live instrumentation, and choreography to explore the performativity of language in public speaking.

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Make It Fit -
Performing in the Form of a Thesis

Performance, Publication, 2024

The piece transformed the thesis-writing process into a performance, where academic constraints became material for artistic intervention.

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Make It Fit — As an Art Student

Durational Performance, 2023-2024

My studio is on the ground floor, with a large window facing a busy street. This tag has been placed next to the window, using it as a 'frame' through which I perform the daily routine of an art student, visible from the street.

Make It Fit - A Missing Brick

Performance, Objects, Intervention, 2022

A brick was missing from an old wall on a street in Ghent, so I filled the hole with a sponge, fitting it perfectly. Giving it a soft support

Make It Fit — As a Collective

Collective Performance, 2021

A group of participants was connected by an elastic string, under the instruction: ‘Collaborate to build a fitting structure without verbal communication. When everyone stops moving for 5 seconds, we will assume that we have reached a consensus on this ‘fitting sculpture.’

Make It Fit — As a Guest

Performance, 2021

I invited 50 people into my room to participate in my daily life. They squeezed into my 20-square-meter room and spent a typical morning routine with me. The relationship between performer and audience, as well as host and guest, constantly shifted between us.

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Make It Fit - A Life Script

Make It Fit—A Life Script is a one-hour multidisciplinary performance that explores how language constructs authority, identity, and social norms by anatomizing the internalized societal script of ‘Make It Fit’. Set within a constructed situation, it blends public address, personal narrative, sonic composition, and improvised interaction, where language becomes a live negotiation between self, structure, and collective imagination. The project transforms “fitting” into a performative strategy, challenging conformity while proposing a sustainable, adaptive model for critical artistic practice.

This project currently in the production phase with support from Stroom Den Haag and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.


This project will be presented at:
Nest in Laak, The Hague, November 28, 2025
Tempel Amsterdam, December 11, 2025
Zaal 3 Den Haag, February 17, 2026

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Make It Fit - A Manifesto in Knitting

This piece exploring the tension between individual autonomy and systemic authority through knitting, coding, and live action. Knitting is reimagined as a human-machine collaborative performance, shifting the focus from the finished object to the act of making itself. Through pre-coded patterns, repetitive labor, and human intervention, a textual-textile manifesto will emerge — proposing new performative expressions of the manifesto form. It will culminate in an eight-hour durational performance presented through live action and installation.

This project currently in the research phase with support from Stroom Den Haag.