Shoot Self with You / Human Surrender
Directed by He Fa, co-created with the entire cast and crew
Works by and with He Fa: photography, theatre and film
From photographic montage and multi-screen installation to P4 Theater’s photography theatre Shixiang (Real Image), the intimate live theatre Iceberg, the collective Vortex and the film Shoot Self with You. Each work states He Fa’s role and links the official work page and YouTube videos.
Film
Photography, moving image and installation
山重水复
From a distance, a landscape. Up close, photographs made at different times and positions.
Hamlet’s Mirror
Performers, projections and screens reflect one another as Hamlet is broken into shifting fragments.
Fafalish
A sentence passes through translation, accent and transcription, becoming a situation between languages.
YourTube
Screens are connected and people sit together. When does connection become participation?
森林记错了一个人
After returning, how do you know you still belong? Two image planes, sound and a thirteen-part monologue from the Lin Qingxuan residency project.
XIN GEWU
An inquiry into form, light and space, continuing from the act of photographing.
P4 Theater: theatre and participatory works
Shadow Counterpoint
A time-limited collective production becomes a looping narrative of GIFs and text.
Shixiang
Photographing and viewing alternate. Participants encounter their own image and decide whether it becomes public.
Cocoon
Sixteen days and nights bring unfamiliar bodies, disagreements and shared work into the theatre.
Hallucination
A theatre production connecting Shixiang with the emergence of the 3P group.
天台上的嚎叫者
From recruitment and rehearsal to performance: tracing how shared work takes form.
How to Eat a Banana?
A familiar act becomes a question to experience together.
控诉爱情失败后的中间派自救指南
Audience choices enter a debate about love; He Fa responds through a signed text.
Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording
Cameras and writers enter rehearsal, making documentation a form of participation that can affect the event.
Purples / Purple Action
Roles, rules, speech and collective judgment become theatre within a jointly constructed fictional world.
Final Solution
Speech, judgment and voting become theatrical actions within a fictional end-of-world assembly.
Saturday Four-Hour Duel Club
Six fighters and a four-hour countdown: votes held by the audience continually change the event.
Iceberg
A small office and fifteen spectators: spatial proximity becomes part of the work.
Vortex
A month of rehearsals and changing participants forms the company’s second production.
World Question Center: Hangzhou Residency and A Common Festival
A month of collective work, from rehearsals at OōEli to a relocated programme on a public lawn.
Breaking the Moon
A collaborative rehearsal process built around changing relationships between roles; directed by Xu Shuai, with He Fa credited as supervising producer.
Personal Chronicle / PHA
Begin with a personal account, propose a project publicly, and continue the archive through action.
Happiness Kingdom
Citizens emerge from discarded materials, and the characters made by participants continue to act and live.
More works and documents (official site)
| Work | Year | Form | He Fa’s role |
|---|---|---|---|
| P4 Theater | 2015–present | Long-term art practice, live work and archives | Co-initiated with Zhang Shaohua; long-term host and organizer |
| I | 2012 | Archival inkjet print | Artist: He Fa |
| Central | 2013 | Archival inkjet print | Artist: He Fa |
| Untitled | 2012–2014 | Archival inkjet print | Artist: He Fa |
| Cocktail | 2013 | Archival inkjet print | Artist: He Fa |
| Wu | 2013–2014 | Archival inkjet print | Artist: He Fa |
| Lose losing | 2014 | Any surface suitable for projection | Artist: He Fa |
| Touch touching | 2014 | Any surface suitable for projection | Artist: He Fa |
| Illusion | 2011 | Photography, light box | Artist: He Fa |
| Sanhetan | 2010 | Photography, archival pigment print | Artist: He Fa |
| The Forbidden City | 2009–2012 | Photography, archival pigment print | Artist: He Fa |
| Fragments | 2012 | Photography, light box | Artist: He Fa |
| Yigui | 2009 | Photography, light box | Artist: He Fa |
| Shunan Bamboo Sea | 2010 | Photography, light box | Artist: He Fa |
| Appearance Arises from the Mind | 2010 | Photography, light box | Artist: He Fa |
| Inside and Outside a Vehicle | 2009 | Photography, light box | Artist: He Fa |
| Field of View | 2009 | Photography, light box | Artist: He Fa |
| Gathering | 2009 | Photography, light box | Artist: He Fa |
| Four-Dimensional People | 2010 | Photography, light box | Artist: He Fa |
| Large Portraits / Portraits | 2010 | Photography, archival pigment prints | Artist: He Fa |
| Fa’s review | 2017 | Documentary video | Artist discussed in the review record |
| Long Long Ago / Project Proposal | 2017 | Collective art project proposal | Proposal retained in the artist’s archive; the document does not specify He Fa’s project role |
| Romance Theatre | 2022 | Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation | Organisation and continuing practice, documented in his interview |
| Becoming Wind, Breaking Waves | 2023 | Personal narrative, collective devising and documentation proposal | Facilitated the proposal and co-authored the call; proposed continuing documentation with a recording team |
| P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us | 2020 | Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice | Co-organisation, programme rules and authored project descriptions |
| Paper Screening | 2020 | Collective drawing, live narration and workshops | P4 Screenings framework and organisation; P4’s collaborative programme with Lisa |
| N/A Magazine: Founding Contribution | Date not recorded | Publication collaboration | Founding Contributor, listed as Fa He |
| The Great Chain of Being: Planet Trilogy | 2016 | Collective intermedia project and performative installation | Advanced-study cohort member, listed among the artists |
| Sangou GIF Theatre | Listed in a 2016 proposal; public images and texts in 2022 | Online images, looping animation and text | See the credits and archive note on this page |
| Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail | 2016 (proposal document) | Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation | Proposal author: He Fa |
| Black Corridor of Spatiotemporal Echoes / Spatial Proposal | 2016 (proposal document) | Proposal for spatial division and a multisensory passage | Collective proposal retained by He Fa; the source does not list full author credits |
| chinesesamericandream / Instagram Thesis | 2018 | Network-based work, Instagram account, thesis | Artist: He Fa / Fa He |
| Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal | 2016 | Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video | Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome |
| Theatre Murder Case | By 2016 | Immersive theatre, drama and games | Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome |
| The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal | 2016 | Collaborative performance exhibition proposal | Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome |
Official sources (the official sites are authoritative)