Make It Fit- A Life Script
Performance, 60-90min
2025
“Make It Fit is the key to living.
Make It Fit is the essence of progress.
Fix it, to make it fit!”
This parody of authoritarian speech is repeated over and over until a personal vulnerability seeps through the mask of satire: How to fit in a way that escapes fitting in? How to carve space for the security and comfort that fitting in brings?
Make It Fit - A Life Script constructs an ordinary yet contrived situation. Blending forms, like: reality show, memory reenactment, speech, collective reading and artist talk, to embrace the ambiguity of fitting—and failing to fit in. The enacted script becomes a live negotiation between language, performance and power.
The audience is scripted to build, read and sing together—as an imaginary one—to examine how language performs us, and how we perform through language, by anatomizing the internalized life script of Make it fit.
Make It Fit is the essence of progress.
Fix it, to make it fit!”
This parody of authoritarian speech is repeated over and over until a personal vulnerability seeps through the mask of satire: How to fit in a way that escapes fitting in? How to carve space for the security and comfort that fitting in brings?
Make It Fit - A Life Script constructs an ordinary yet contrived situation. Blending forms, like: reality show, memory reenactment, speech, collective reading and artist talk, to embrace the ambiguity of fitting—and failing to fit in. The enacted script becomes a live negotiation between language, performance and power.
The audience is scripted to build, read and sing together—as an imaginary one—to examine how language performs us, and how we perform through language, by anatomizing the internalized life script of Make it fit.
Visual Identity by Bo Jiang; Poster Photography by Andrea Bonderup
Make It Fit — A Life Script continues my ongoing performance series.
This iteration begins with self and script.
Self as method: an anatomy of lived experience and memory that maps a life script – patterns carved by repetition, reward, and rehearsal. From there, it develops into a performance script that constructs an ordinary yet contrived situation in which familiar roles tug for control: the director grips the text; the translator chases meaning; the scenographer polishes the scene; the cinematographer frames a parallel story; and the self—caught between script and surprise, sound and sense, story and song, speech and silence—tries to make it fit.
Different I’s become sites of translation, creating a live negotiation between language, performance and power. The work drifts between live settings—reality show, memory reenactment, speech, collective reading, artist talk, to explore how language performs us and how we perform through language; how societal scripts are internalized, disrupted, and re-enacted; and how they shape authority, identity, and the chorus we call consensus.
Make It Fit — A Life Script seeks to create a poetic yet critical space where vulnerability, absurdity, sincerity, and resistance coexist. Here, life scripts are not simply reenacted but actively questioned, disrupted, and reimagined. The vitality of Make It Fit lies in spiraling and regenerating.
This iteration begins with self and script.
Self as method: an anatomy of lived experience and memory that maps a life script – patterns carved by repetition, reward, and rehearsal. From there, it develops into a performance script that constructs an ordinary yet contrived situation in which familiar roles tug for control: the director grips the text; the translator chases meaning; the scenographer polishes the scene; the cinematographer frames a parallel story; and the self—caught between script and surprise, sound and sense, story and song, speech and silence—tries to make it fit.
Different I’s become sites of translation, creating a live negotiation between language, performance and power. The work drifts between live settings—reality show, memory reenactment, speech, collective reading, artist talk, to explore how language performs us and how we perform through language; how societal scripts are internalized, disrupted, and re-enacted; and how they shape authority, identity, and the chorus we call consensus.
Make It Fit — A Life Script seeks to create a poetic yet critical space where vulnerability, absurdity, sincerity, and resistance coexist. Here, life scripts are not simply reenacted but actively questioned, disrupted, and reimagined. The vitality of Make It Fit lies in spiraling and regenerating.
Premiere
Date: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Entry window: 19:45–20:15 (the performance starts when you enter)
Venue: Nest in Laak, Verheeskade 321, 2121DE Den Haag
Duration: 60–90 minutes
Tickets
Upcoming presentations:
Sat 13 Dec 2025 — Tempel Amsterdam (ticket info will follow)
Tue 17 Feb 2026 — Zaal 3, Den Haag