Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal

A collaboration by FakingAosome

The proposal dated 5 September 2016 is signed by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang. Its team introduction states that they founded FakingAosome in 2015 to explore theatre, the internet and visual language. Hamlet’s Mirror is identified as the group’s first project, developed at P4 Theater in Beijing between June and December 2015.

From one screen to four

The document describes the 2015 first version as using one screen, one performer, one projector and one video camera. The new proposal encloses a space with four screens, marking audience and performance areas in pink and green. It retains an eight-act structure to be realized through live action and real-time projection.

Screens as spatial relationships

The authors treat the body’s interruption of projection as a change of stage and an image projected onto a body as another space. The four-screen proposal transfers displacement within an image to relationships between screens, nesting the person, the image and the viewing position within one another.

Proposal status

The document is explicitly presented as a proposal for the Third CAFAM Biennale and includes a spatial rendering, implementation requirements and an equipment budget. It establishes a proposed expansion in 2016, without by itself proving realization at the biennale.

A separately dated Theory Theatre proposal

A separately retained four-page “Theory Theatre” proposal is signed by Zhang Aoshuang and He Fa on its final page and dated 10 August 2016. Page 3 proposes an enclosure of four screens, with audience and performance areas marked in pink and green respectively. It is a separate document from the CAFAM proposal bearing the signed date 5 September 2016. The documents should be cited separately: 10 August is not the signed date recorded in the latter, nor does this evidence establish the CAFAM proposal’s actual submission date or the exhibition’s realization.

Archival document review · 30 September 2026. Source: the four-page “Theory Theatre” proposal, pp. 3–4, signed and dated 10 August 2016. English is an editorial translation; “Theory Theatre” translates 理论剧院.

From a four-page to a five-page proposal

A page-by-page comparison shows that the five-page CAFAM proposal signed and dated 5 September 2016 adds an introduction to FakingAosome and descriptions of four projects to the four-page “Theory Theatre” proposal dated 10 August. It retains the spatial diagram of an enclosure formed by four screens. The added introduction places Hamlet’s Mirror in the context of the team’s other work. Both documents are signed by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang; the textual revisions and the reuse of the diagram are not evidence that two exhibitions were realized.

Archival document comparison · 30 September 2026. Sources: the four-page “Theory Theatre” proposal dated 10 August 2016 and the five-page proposal for the Third CAFAM Biennale dated 5 September 2016. These are the dates recorded with the signatures. English is an editorial translation.