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Fafalish
A sentence passes through translation, accent and transcription, becoming a situation between languages.
Selected works2017 / Documentary video
Fa’s review
A work-sample list preserves four recordings with different lengths and viewpoints.
- Name in the source
- Fa He
- Completion date in the list
- 28 April 2017
- Recordings
- 4
- Original category
- Documentary
Complete chapter contents
Four recordings
Fa He Work Sample List, preserved with material from the CCA period, lists four recordings titled Fa’s review: 01 runs 23 minutes 35 seconds; 02, 40 seconds; 03, 17 minutes 12 seconds. A fourth is labelled “dong dong perspective” and runs 1 hour and 33 seconds. All four share the completion date 28 April 2017.
The list also names advancement-review information, a statement prepared for the review and a statement for Fa’s review as important material within the video. The surviving document establishes the four recordings and their historical links, but does not reconstruct the full arrangement or sequence of the event. The original title, viewpoint label and durations are retained as the starting points for this project record.
The artist’s statement before the review
An English statement retained for the advancement review repeatedly asks whether the speaker is an artist. Beginning with art education and artistic identity, He Fa connects artificial intelligence’s capacity to learn tools with human choices made when certainty and expression fail. It provides a contemporaneous textual context for the experiments with language, performance and identity in Fa’s review.
The statement’s claims about artificial intelligence belong to the artist’s thinking at the time. Their place in the work is preserved here without presenting them as technically verified predictions.
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Archive note
Based on the original table in Fa He Work Sample List.docx, which records four videos, their durations and historical links. The information in that list is retained here; a fuller account of the event and its arrangement requires further material.
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Work record
Fa’s review, 2017. Documentary video. He Fa’s role: Artist discussed in the review record.
- Work / series
- Fa’s review
- Date
- 2017
- Medium
- Documentary video
- He Fa’s role
- Artist discussed in the review record
- Catalogue section
- Early explorations
Cite this record: Fa’s review · 2017 · Artist discussed in the review record · https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fas-review
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Other paths from this work.
Keeping and losing
Recording a review, protecting discussion
Fa’s reviewP4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us
The Fa’s review list retains four recordings; P4 Screenings’ September rules explicitly leave discussions unrecorded. Both involve speaking before others, but one preserves multiple videos while the other protects an exchange from being recorded.
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- Period documentFour recordings ↗
Fa He Work Sample List lists four Fa’s review recordings, their durations and the date 28 April 2017; the list is not a reconstruction of the entire event.
- Period documentFrom screening to self-screening ↗
The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions.
- Period documentFour recordings ↗
Keeping and losing
Facing assessment and initiating a future
Fa’s reviewPersonal Chronicle / PHA
Fa’s review preserves an account within assessment recordings; Personal Chronicle connects long interviews to later initiatives. Both turn speech into material, but responding to an assessment and proposing one’s own project are different positions.
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- Artist’s statementThe artist’s statement before the review ↗
The saved English artist statement before advancement review raises artist identity and expression; it is a contemporaneous self-account.
- Period documentHow the project is structured ↗
The 2023 text Theatre and Fear proposes a two-to-five-hour personal interview, retained records and subsequent project initiation.
- Artist’s statementThe artist’s statement before the review ↗
FROM HERE, ELSEWHERE
Passages between works
Related records in the archive
- Fafalish ↗2017
- YourTube ↗2018