2016 / Collaborative performance exhibition proposal

The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal

Bringing a loss of control into an exhibiting group: a proposed series of actions and movements among thirty participants.

Team introduction page of the 2016 CAFAM proposal, naming FakingAosome’s founders and four projects — Proposal for the Third CAFAM Biennale, p. 1. The final page is signed He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang, 5 September 2016.

Co-creators: He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome
Collaborative context: Advanced study programme, School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art
Document date: 5 September 2016
Status: Performance exhibition proposed for a future event

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A proposal concerned with loss of control

The 2016 proposal describes The Invisible Odyssey as a performance exhibition developed by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang with the advanced study programme of the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art. Its stated aim is to address “loss of control” through actions and movements involving a thirty-person exhibiting group.

The document speaks in the future tense

The source states that the project “will participate in the Shanghai Biennale in November 2016.” This records an intention at the time of writing. The entry therefore retains its proposal status, without converting the plan into a completed participation or identifying it automatically with another contemporaneous project.

Archive note

Prepared from original documents retained by the artist. English text is a translation for this site.

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The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal, 2016. Collaborative performance exhibition proposal. He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome.

Work / series: The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal
Date: 2016
Medium: Collaborative performance exhibition proposal
He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome
Catalogue section: Proposals

Cite this record: The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal · 2016 · Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome · https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey

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DOCUMENT RECORD
Working together
Who becomes the starting point
The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal Becoming Wind, Breaking Waves
The Invisible Odyssey proposes actions involving a thirty-person team; Becoming Wind begins its invitation with Lifeng’s account. Both invite shared creation, but their starting conditions differ: a team arrangement and a person’s wishes.
2016 / Collaborative performance exhibition proposal · Proposals
2023 / Personal narrative, collective devising and documentation proposal
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1. Period documentA proposal concerned with loss of control ↗
  The 2016 proposal aims at loss of control through actions involving a team of thirty; this is the proposal’s premise.
2. Period documentHow a personal story becomes a shared project ↗
  The 2023 call jointly signed by Lifeng and He Fa starts from Lifeng’s account Ruma and invites collective writing, directing, performance and documentation.
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Rules and choices
The planned bounds of losing control
The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal Saturday Four-Hour Duel Club
The Invisible Odyssey sets loss of control as a proposed aim; Duel Club operates through a countdown and elimination. Both anticipate unknown outcomes, but actual voting consequences cannot substantiate a proposal whose realization remains unverified.
2016 / Collaborative performance exhibition proposal · Proposals
2021–2023 / Interactive theatre, a voting game and a transcript archive
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1. Period documentA proposal concerned with loss of control ↗
  The 2016 proposal aims at loss of control through actions involving a team of thirty; this is the proposal’s premise.
2. Period documentTurning the ring into a theatre of judgment ↗
  The call for 23 October 2021 specifies six fighters, a four-hour countdown and five rounds of audience elimination votes; later proposals do not replace this version.
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