# Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal Canonical: https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal, 2016. Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video. He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome. 2016 / Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video From one screen to a four-sided enclosure, extending the displacement between audiences, performers and images. Four-screen proposal for Hamlet’s Mirror, 2016. Original rendering from the CAFAM proposal signed by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang, p. 5. Co-creators He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome CAFAM proposal: signed date 5 September 2016 Original version June–December 2015, P4 Theater, Beijing Status Four-screen expansion proposal; final realization not verified ## Work record Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal, 2016. Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video. He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome. Work / series Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal Date 2016 Medium Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video He Fa’s role Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome Catalogue section Proposals Cite this record: Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal · 2016 · Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome · [https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-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. ## Works & details Proposal for the Third CAFAM Biennale, p. 1. The final page is signed He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang, 5 September 2016. ## Archive note Prepared from original documents retained by the artist. English text is a translation for this site. ## Continue exploring ### Hamlet’s Mirror Performers, projections and screens reflect one another as Hamlet is broken into shifting fragments. ### P4 Theater Spaces, participants, events and documentation change one another through sustained work. ### Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail A proposed bodily passage through digestion, birth and death, leaving performance time as traces and fragments. TAKE A PATH ACROSS ## Other paths from this work. Spaces transformed How multiple images arrange viewing [Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal) ↔ [Field of View](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/yanjie) Field of View juxtaposes city views in rectangles; the CAFAM four-screen proposal places viewers between screens. The move from planar divisions to enclosure changes viewing positions, while realization of the proposal remains unverified. 2016 / Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video · Proposals 2009 / Photography, light box Read the source materials Work image [Images and presentation ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/yanjie#chapter-1) The first image places urban views in rectangular rows, retaining differences of angle and position between adjacent blocks. Period document [From one screen to four ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal#chapter-2) The jointly signed proposal of 5 September 2016 surrounds the space with four screens and distinguishes audience and performance areas by colour; the evidence is a proposal and equipment arrangement. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=yanjie) Spaces transformed ### How multiple images arrange viewing [Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal) ↔ [Field of View](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/yanjie) Field of View juxtaposes city views in rectangles; the CAFAM four-screen proposal places viewers between screens. The move from planar divisions to enclosure changes viewing positions, while realization of the proposal remains unverified. 2016 / Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video · Proposals 2009 / Photography, light box Work image [Images and presentation ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/yanjie#chapter-1) The first image places urban views in rectangular rows, retaining differences of angle and position between adjacent blocks. The first image places urban views in rectangular rows, retaining differences of angle and position between adjacent blocks. Period document [From one screen to four ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal#chapter-2) The jointly signed proposal of 5 September 2016 surrounds the space with four screens and distinguishes audience and performance areas by colour; the evidence is a proposal and equipment arrangement. The jointly signed proposal of 5 September 2016 surrounds the space with four screens and distinguishes audience and performance areas by colour; the evidence is a proposal and equipment arrangement. Spaces transformed Enclosure can be planned or constrained [Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal) ↔ [Iceberg](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/iceberg) The CAFAM four-screen proposal distinguishes audience and performance zones in drawings; Iceberg shares limited office space. Both arrange enclosure and spectatorship, but imagined zoning cannot stand in for actual obstruction. 2016 / Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video · Proposals 2021–2022 / Intimate live theatre Read the source materials Period document [From one screen to four ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal#chapter-2) The jointly signed proposal of 5 September 2016 surrounds the space with four screens and distinguishes audience and performance areas by colour; the evidence is a proposal and equipment arrangement. Event record [Project statement ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/iceberg#chapter-3) The event record specifies 1 January 2022, an office, eight makers and fifteen audience members, including crowding and obstruction as conditions of viewing. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=iceberg) Spaces transformed ### Enclosure can be planned or constrained [Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal) ↔ [Iceberg](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/iceberg) The CAFAM four-screen proposal distinguishes audience and performance zones in drawings; Iceberg shares limited office space. Both arrange enclosure and spectatorship, but imagined zoning cannot stand in for actual obstruction. 2016 / Proposal for four-screen projection, live performance and real-time video · Proposals 2021–2022 / Intimate live theatre Period document [From one screen to four ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror-cafam-proposal#chapter-2) The jointly signed proposal of 5 September 2016 surrounds the space with four screens and distinguishes audience and performance areas by colour; the evidence is a proposal and equipment arrangement. The jointly signed proposal of 5 September 2016 surrounds the space with four screens and distinguishes audience and performance areas by colour; the evidence is a proposal and equipment arrangement. Event record [Project statement ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/iceberg#chapter-3) The event record specifies 1 January 2022, an office, eight makers and fifteen audience members, including crowding and obstruction as conditions of viewing. The event record specifies 1 January 2022, an office, eight makers and fifteen audience members, including crowding and obstruction as conditions of viewing. FROM HERE, ELSEWHERE ## Passages between works ### Related records in the archive [Hamlet’s Mirror ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror) 2015 [P4 Theater ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-theatre) 2015–present [Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon) 2016 (proposal document)