Once Again
Rehearsal and repetition: formal recurrence, relational familiarity and demands for authenticity.
P4 Research Series · 8 October 2026
Relational Image Research
A work must take form, yet the people in it cannot be fully resolved by that form.
Six independent essays on P4’s Shoot Self with You, addressing rehearsal, fiction, acknowledgment, bodies, science fiction and judgment.
Six different questions
Read in sequence or enter through a particular question. The essays share concepts but examine different relational mechanisms: the second develops the first’s brief account of the white cloth, while the sixth takes the third’s question of acknowledgment towards public judgment.
When Disappearance Is Stopped by a Question
The white cloth and an unplanned question: how fiction changes the meaning of an action.
After Seeing
Seeing and acknowledgment: why greater visibility does not guarantee a response.
Where Should the Hands Go?
Bodies and comedy: local adjustment through heat, cold, hand positions and laughter.
Earth Became a Distant Place
Science fiction and space: directions, tower calls and plot proposals reorganise a room.
After Zero
Judgment and equality: a low score for a work cannot decide a person’s capacity to create.
Theoretical outline · Six parts, eighteen chapters
The outline plans six parts, eighteen chapters, ninety sections and 270 detailed points of argument, with an introduction and conclusion. It is a writing plan, not eighteen completed chapters; these six independent essays are not simply its first six chapters.
Read the complete theoretical and chapter outline (Chinese) →
Return to the work and materials
Shoot Self with You project page · Public screening edition · Does a Zero-Star Person Deserve an Audience? archive · Watch the archive edit · P4 research library (Chinese)
Editions and translation
The series follows the complete Chinese manuscripts dated 8 October 2026. The original scope of material and limits on theoretical paraphrase are retained; editorial series navigation is separate from the manuscripts. All six essays are available in full in Chinese and English.