Earlier publication · 2026-10-25
This earlier edition is preserved in full beside the current material above. Dates, counts, invitations and terminology belong to that edition; current project credits and arrangements remain in the current records.
P4 Theater
P4 Theater (P4剧场) is an independent experimental theatre initiated in Beijing around 2015 by He Fa and Zhang Shaohua. Through performance, photography, moving image and writing, it creates live situations people can enter and preserves their records in a public archive.
Enter through a work
Film, an interactive work and writing follow an ongoing creative practice.
Film and theatre project
Shoot Self with You
Follow the casting, rehearsal, filming and public performances into the film and later writing.
Interactive digital work
Under the Membrane
Walk through the work via live scenes, moving image, dialogue and timecodes.
Published in 2026 · Artistic research
Relational Image-Making
A study of how images emerge through relations, grounded in P4 Theater and Shoot Self with You.
Archive and reading
Continue through project records, original articles and research texts.
People and participation
Meet the artist or contact P4.
Contact P4 Theater
For programming, research, media, and collaboration enquiries, use email. For Mainland China event communication, use the WeChat ID below.
CA · 咔馆 ↗ · Identity & contact
Research topics and book editions
Relational Image Research
Six Chinese essays on rehearsal, acknowledgment, bodies, science fiction and judgment. Full English translations are pending.
Read the series in Chinese →Relational Image-Making: P4 Theater and Shoot Self with You
Read the interactive edition · Chinese and English PDFs · DOI · Citation and edition details · Author ORCID
The interactive online edition and the earlier six-essay research series retain their own versions.