Site
Factories, offices, bookstores and private rooms enter the work directly.
HE FA / PHOTOGRAPHY · THEATRE · FILM · SOUND
He FaPhotography, theatre and film
Mountain Beyond Mountains, P4 Theatre and Human Surrender Faction, 2012 to the present.
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He Fa began with photography.
In 2015, he founded P4 Theatre in Beijing and took the work into factories, offices, bookstores and private rooms. Human Surrender Faction, completed in 2023–2024, draws years of shared life, rehearsal and camera relations into a film of approximately 156 minutes. He continues to work with its sound, images and text.
2012 to the present
01
Photography
Mountain Beyond Mountains recomposed many partial photographs into landscape in 2012.
02
Gewu Studio
He Fa joined its founding in 2012, working on the market side and contributing to design discussions.
03
P4 Theatre
Founded in 2015, P4 moved performances and workshops through different urban sites.
04
Live relations
Howler on the Rooftop, Iceberg and Love Theatre followed between 2020 and 2023.
05
Film and sound
After Human Surrender Faction, work continued through sound, frames and short films.
Works and projects
Six authored or P4 projects, together with He Fa’s 2012 chapter at Gewu Studio. Each page states his specific role.
Film / approx. 156 min
Human Surrender Faction2023–2024
The film emerged from P4 Theatre’s long-term rehearsals, shared life and filming process. The camera records the participants as well as the director’s place inside the situation.
P4
P4 Theatre / 2015–present
Founded and directed by He Fa in Beijing, P4 has worked in abandoned factories, a 16-square-metre office, boxing gyms, bookstores, industrial sites and private rooms through performances, workshops, filming and collective production.
Participants
Open calls, rehearsal and shared life shape the production process.
Live situation
Audience distance and response continue to alter the action.
Moving image
Camera, sound and text retain different sides of each event.
HE FA / 何发He Fa / 何发
He Fa is an interdisciplinary artist and a theatre and moving-image maker. He is the founder, director and long-term organizer of P4 Theatre. His practice began with photography and later moved into non-standard sites, participatory theatre, film and sound.
He studied photography at the School of Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts, and later undertook Fine Arts MFA-stage study at California College of the Arts, participating in its 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition.
Timeline
- 2016–2018
- Fine Arts MFA-stage study, California College of the Arts; 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition participant
- 2008–2012
- Photography, School of Design, 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
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