HE FA / FA HE / 何发
Titles, dates, media, credits and sources.
He Fa is the English name currently used by the artist 何发. Historical records also use Fa He for the same person. Based in Beijing, he works across photography, moving-image installations, theatre and film, and is a co-initiator and long-term host of P4 Theater.
Organised by each work’s place and significance within the practice, with completed works and research in progress identified. Developed early and co-authored works, alongside current projects with concrete research material, can appear in the selection. Early explorations, sustained collaborative practice and proposals have separate entrances.
Film, rehearsal, live performance
He Fa’s role: Initiator, producer and editor; direction and screenplay collectively created by the crew
A collective film grows through recruitment, rehearsal and public performance. How does shared time enter the edit?
Participatory theatre, a deliberation game and process documentation
He Fa’s role: Purples co-initiation, participation in assemblies and authored reflection
Speech, judgment and voting become theatrical actions within a fictional end-of-world assembly.
Photography theatre
He Fa’s role: Collaboration with Zhang Shaohua; theory, structure, framework and interpretation
Photographing and viewing alternate. Participants encounter their own image and decide whether it becomes public.
Multi-screen video installation
He Fa’s role: Artist; graduate thesis work
Screens are connected and people sit together. When does connection become participation?
Language, video, printed text
He Fa’s role: Artist and exhibition curator
A sentence passes through translation, accent and transcription, becoming a situation between languages.
Online images, looping animation and text
He Fa’s role: See the credits and archive note on this page
A virtual character builds a theatre through repetition, transformation and brief pieces of language.
Moving image and performance
He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang (FakingAosome)
Performers, projections and screens reflect one another as Hamlet is broken into shifting fragments.
Any surface suitable for projection
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
An image experiment specified for projection on a surface at a variable scale.
Any surface suitable for projection
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Coloured circles fill an image whose scale depends on the space of projection.
Archival inkjet print
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Works titled Wu reorganize photographs across landscapes, portraits, coloured points and writing.
Archival inkjet print
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Placing the sun among the mountains rearranges a space that photography cannot ordinarily show.
Archival inkjet print
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Photographs taken while hiking are ordered by JPEG file size, allowing sky and ground to emerge from a digital sequence.
Archival inkjet print
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
A complex assembly of more than ten thousand photographs carries the history of repeated work and a decision to stop.
Co-creation, 3D printing and product design
He Fa’s role: He Fa: photography, conceptual development, form exploration and artistic direction; collaborative studio practice
Water held in form; photography reveals light, surfaces and the spaces between.
Photography, digital montage, light boxes
He Fa’s role: Artist
From a distance, a landscape. Up close, photographs made at different times and positions.
Archival inkjet print
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
A macro lens travels across the body; individual photographs assemble into an enlarged self-portrait.
Photography, objects and space
He Fa’s role: He Fa: photography, conceptual development and artistic direction
An inquiry into form, light and space, continuing from the act of photographing.
Network-based work, Instagram account, thesis
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa / Fa He
“Fa He’s thesis is a instagram account.” A short statement redirects the reading of a thesis to a social platform account.
Documentary video
He Fa’s role: Artist discussed in the review record
A work-sample list preserves four recordings with different lengths and viewpoints.
Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Dense horizontal bands divide the image into adjoining fragments.
Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Six bodily gestures appear suspended against a white field.
Photography, archival pigment print
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Trees, snow and the waterside are assembled across the seams of separate photographs.
Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
A narrow vertical image joins trees, mountains and mist.
Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Mountains, trees and blocks of sky are rejoined within a circular boundary.
Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Bodies are assembled from separate views, holding traces of walking, reading and working.
Photography, archival pigment prints
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Four portraits unfold alongside three enlarged details of each.
Photography, archival pigment print
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
An architectural outline remains recognizable as details disperse through overlapping images.
Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Two images share a page: sharp repetition beside diffuse superimposition.
Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Streets, vehicles and windows repeat through several different image structures.
Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Roads and buildings repeat in rectangular cells, presenting the city through adjoining views.
Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Tables, rooms and snow-covered ground form circular arrangements of distinct everyday scenes.
Personal narrative, collective devising and documentation proposal
He Fa’s role: Facilitated the proposal and co-authored the call; proposed continuing documentation with a recording team
A personal account by Lifeng calls others into a shared creative process.
Interview archives, collective creation and public documentation
He Fa’s role: Author of the framework and declaration; P4 project organisation
Begin with a personal account, propose a project publicly, and continue the archive through action.
Collective puppet-making, role play and an evolving theatrical environment
He Fa’s role: Co-design of formats, rules and models, and organisation through P4
Citizens emerge from discarded materials, and the characters made by participants continue to act and live.
Theatre, rehearsal and production archive
He Fa’s role: Supervising producer; rehearsal discussion and creative coordination
A collaborative rehearsal process built around changing relationships between roles; directed by Xu Shuai, with He Fa credited as supervising producer.
North Wind Theatre collective creation
He Fa’s role: Collective creator, member of the announced performing roster, author of a signed article
A month of rehearsals and changing participants forms the company’s second production.
Continuing workshops, relational practice and documentation
He Fa’s role: Organisation and continuing practice, documented in his interview
Shared exercises and lived encounters return through documentation to theatre.
Residency, collective rehearsal, interactive performance and work in public space
He Fa’s role: One of five project initiators; a named performer in A Common Festival
A month of collective work, from rehearsals at OōEli to a relocated programme on a public lawn.
Interactive theatre, a voting game and a transcript archive
He Fa’s role: Purples co-initiation and collaborative development of its game models
Six fighters and a four-hour countdown: votes held by the audience continually change the event.
Intimate live theatre
He Fa’s role: Producer
A small office and fifteen spectators: spatial proximity becomes part of the work.
Participatory theatre, role-playing and experiments in organisation
He Fa’s role: Co-initiated with Shen Bolun and Shao Yifan
Roles, rules, speech and collective judgment become theatre within a jointly constructed fictional world.
P4X workshop
He Fa’s role: Initiator
A familiar act becomes a question to experience together.
P4U immersive theatre; associated writing
He Fa’s role: Author of the signed announcement “Who Are the Centrists?”
Audience choices enter a debate about love; He Fa responds through a signed text.
Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal
He Fa’s role: 3P group creator; author of the 3P recruitment text
Cameras and writers enter rehearsal, making documentation a form of participation that can affect the event.
Theatre, rehearsal and documentation
He Fa’s role: P4 organizing and 3P documentation
From recruitment and rehearsal to performance: tracing how shared work takes form.
Proscenium theatre and production practice
He Fa’s role: Production collaborator, according to his 2022 retrospective
A theatre production connecting Shixiang with the emergence of the 3P group.
Dance theatre and collective production
He Fa’s role: Production and organisational collaboration, signed writing and participation in backstage interviews
Sixteen days and nights bring unfamiliar bodies, disagreements and shared work into the theatre.
Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice
He Fa’s role: Co-organisation, programme rules and authored project descriptions
Moving from watching films to sharing personal accounts, the project calls its discussions “self-screening.”
Collective drawing, live narration and workshops
He Fa’s role: P4 Screenings framework and organisation; P4’s collaborative programme with Lisa
Drawings are held up on stage as materials, bodies and conversation enter the act of looking.
Collective theatre, GIF and text
He Fa’s role: Named collaborator; collective P4 creation
A time-limited collective production becomes a looping narrative of GIFs and text.
Collective intermedia project and performative installation
He Fa’s role: Advanced-study cohort member, listed among the artists
Participation in a large collaborative project as a member of its advanced-study cohort.
Long-term art practice, live work and archives
He Fa’s role: Co-initiated with Zhang Shaohua; long-term host and organizer
Spaces, participants, events and documentation change one another through sustained work.
Parametric design, products, 3D printing, spatial proposals
He Fa’s role: Co-founder and artistic director
From Wave Pen, Tantan and Cornices to screens and lighting, an archive of Gewu’s early work across products and art.
Publication collaboration
He Fa’s role: Founding Contributor, listed as Fa He
A magazine collaboration arising from a course on art, technology and power.
Immersive theatre, drama and games
He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome
An immersive experience created by FakingAosome at P4 Theater, combining drama and games.
Collective art project proposal
He Fa’s role: Proposal retained in the artist’s archive; the document does not specify He Fa’s project role
A proposal for meeting across neighbourhoods and taking turns to host events.
Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation
He Fa’s role: Proposal author: He Fa
A proposed bodily passage through digestion, birth and death, leaving performance time as traces and fragments.
Proposal for spatial division and a multisensory passage
He Fa’s role: Collective proposal retained by He Fa; the source does not list full author credits
A black corridor intended as a necessary passage, extending the experience of space through touch, sound, sight and taste.
Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video
He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome
From one screen to a four-sided enclosure, extending the displacement between audiences, performers and images.
Collaborative performance exhibition proposal
He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome
Bringing a loss of control into an exhibiting group: a proposed series of actions and movements among thirty participants.
The readings labelled 2026 were drafted and organised with AI assistance during the site’s editorial process, using the work records and public sources cited on each page. They are presented separately from He Fa’s signed texts, contemporary project descriptions and participants’ own words. They are not attributed to an external critic or substituted for statements made when a work was created. The 2026-09-16 edition updates the viewing sequence, independent project links and editorial attribution.