A collaborative practice using role play, discussion and social situations. Its archive separates project documents, rules, proposals, posters and event records.
Co-initiated by Shen Bolun, He Fa and Shao Yifan, with a documented connection to P4X. Final Solution, Duel Club and online events retain their own contexts.
Page1 of Purples: Project Introduction, with the Purples symbol and the original project title. A document cover for the parent project.Source [8] · Full sizePage4, Project Overview. The document identifies Shen Bolun’s 2019 Colosseum as the predecessor and a 2021 reworking by the Purples group. The background is retained as part of the page, not separately labelled as a 2021 event photograph.Source [8] · Full sizePage8, File Archiving. Numbered ballot forms appear in the document’s account of recording and archiving moving images, text, images and objects. This is not an independently verified vote count.Source [8] · Full sizePage12, Organisations in Purples. The chart is shown as the project document’s own account, not independent evidence that every organisation or publication operated.Source [8] · Full sizePage14 explicitly places Final Solution within Purples and describes deliberation, voting and organisational roles. It is an in-world organisational and procedural document.Source [8] · Full sizePage16, titled Final Solution: Deliberative Council Model, shows initial, intermediate and final-round diagrams. This procedural model is distinct from the three presentation models in the spatial proposal.Source [8] · Full sizeThe rule sheet is titled Final Solution: Deliberative Council Introduction. It describes16 citizens, four members of the advisory council and successive rounds. These are designed rules, not independently verified attendance or outcomes.Source [8] · Full sizeA purple-and-white graphic from the file named Headscarf2. Its circular and triangular S motifs correspond to the council-model symbols on page16. It is a design, not proof that a physical headscarf was produced or worn.Source [8] · Full sizeA scanned ballot with the councillor number covered by a folded corner. The visible candidate number, handwritten choice and reason fields correspond to the archival forms on page8. It is an anonymous procedural example, not an adjudicated result.Source [8] · Full sizeA projection-filled interior with floor lights and people standing or seated. This same image appears on page6, Ritual Performance, of the project introduction. The source EXIF records25 July2021 at19:07:06; the event, location and photographer are not independently verified.Source [8] · Full sizePage10 of the spatial proposal names DAY2: Duel Club and identifies it as Purples presentation model two. The planned day is not proof that a performance occurred.Source [8] · Full sizePage22 sets out the club’s rules: six participants, member voting and a four-hour time limit, explicitly framed as a nonviolent mechanism. The rule text remains separate from verified execution or outcomes.Source [8] · Full sizeThe red poster explicitly names24KICK × Purples, Duel Club, a four-hour immersive interactive theatre event in a boxing gym, and23 October2021. The printed date is an announcement date, not proof of occurrence.Source [8] · Full sizePage17 names DAY3: Surveillance System / The CCTV and Purples presentation model three. It is a proposal title, not a record of an installed or operating system.Source [8] · Full sizeActive slide3 of Surveillance System.key shows a proposed room layout and distances between computer, chair and phone. It is an installation proposal, not a photograph of a completed setup.Source [8] · Full sizeActive slide4 diagrams computer and phone meetings, the participant and facing cameras. It presents proposed constraints, not a claim of actual deployment or operation.Source [8] · Full size
