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P4 Theater
Making work through concrete relations
- Year
- 2015–至今 / present
- Medium
- Long-term artistic platform, performance, workshops, moving image and writing
- Role
- Co-initiator / long-term artistic lead and organiser
The idea of P4 began in 2015 and its first public work appeared in 2016. He Fa has since sustained its projects, spaces, moving images and writing.
Project statement
Around 2015, He Fa and Zhang Shaohua initiated P4 Theater in Beijing. Zhang Aoshuang took part in its early conception and co-curated the first public performance, Shadow Counterpoint, with He Fa in 2016. He Fa has continued as P4’s long-term artistic lead and organiser.
P4 projects have entered former factories, a small office, a boxing space, bookstores and private rooms. Site, participant identity, audience routes and filming conditions are not backdrops; they directly alter how the work takes place.
A line through the work
If theatre is first a way of arranging relations, where does a work begin and where can it end?
Iceberg
Close-range theatre inside a small office