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.
Latest updates
Three clear paths into newly added documents, criticism and studio-critique records.
Documentation update · Purples
Purples: documents, rules and spatial proposals
Read 16 source items on The Final Solution, Duel Club and CCTV, with documents, rules, design proposals and documented scenes identified separately.
New criticism · Cen Zhao
The Suspended Guillotine
Cen Zhao reads He Fa’s practice through photographic seams, shared work at P4 and the editing of Shoot Self with You. The complete Chinese article contains eight images.
Studio critique, 2017 · Three newly archived recordings
Fa re-review: the studio critique
Three newly archived studio-critique recordings return speech, installation and viewing conditions to the room. They are identified separately from the earlier four-video Fa’s review record.
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.
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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.