Non-standard sites
Turn the limits of an existing place into conditions of the work.
Interdisciplinary art practice / Beijing
From structures of seeingto generative theatre
Photography, spatial practice, relational theatre, fugitive cinema and post-cinematic systems.
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He Fa does not make isolated objects. He builds situations in which real relations become exposed.
Beginning with photography, his practice moved through designed objects, non-standard sites and long-term theatre into cinema, then expanded toward sound, data, AI moving image and code. Media change; the question persists: How does looking organize relations? How can lived experience be produced, exposed, recorded and generated again?
A practice continually moving outward
01
Seeing
The image is not a record but a structure for organizing sight.
02
Form
Texture and order become object, surface and space.
03
Site
Space becomes action, relation and collective.
04
Cinema
Long-term life and theatre enter the camera.
05
Generation
Film continues as sound, data, model and code.
Selected works
These projects are not separate career entries. Together they form a continuous chain from image and structure to live situation, cinema and generative system.
Major work / approx. 156 min
Cinema is not an endpoint,but the residue of a relation.
Human Surrender Faction grew from the lived collective of P4 Theatre. It is both a film and a long-term experiment in intimacy, directorial power, performance and the ethics of looking.
P4
Theatre as method
P4 does not understand theatre as a finished object on stage. It treats theatre as a method for organizing space, spectators, action and failure. Abandoned factories, offices, boxing gyms, bookstores and private rooms become live sites; rehearsal, open calls, writing, community, recording and unfinished relations all enter the work.
Relational structure
Reorganize who sees, who speaks and who carries consequences before producing plot.
Recursive image
Return production conditions, recording mechanisms and later analysis to the work.
Generative systems
Translate cinema onward into sound, text, data, AI and code.
HE FA / 何发About He Fa
He Fa is an interdisciplinary artist, theatre and moving-image maker, and spatial narrative researcher. Since 2015 he has founded and directed P4 Theatre, using theatre as a method to organize non-standard sites, relations and public actions.
He holds a BA in Photography from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and an MFA in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts. His work spans photography, spatial installation, participatory theatre, documentary, sound and AI-based generative systems.
Education & practice
- 2016–2018
- MFA Fine Arts, California College of the Arts
- 2008–2012
- BA Photography, Central Academy of Fine Arts
- 2015–present
- Founder / Director, P4 Theatre
- 2024
- Human Surrender Faction, semi-finalist, Boden International Film Festival
- 2012
- Mountain Beyond Mountains, CAFA Art Museum collection
Let a new relation begin.
For residencies, exhibitions, screenings, talks and interdisciplinary collaborations, please get in touch. Full films and extended archives are available on request.
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