# The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal Canonical: https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal, 2016. Collaborative performance exhibition proposal. He Fa’s role: Co-created by He Fa and Zhang Aoshuang / FakingAosome. 2016 / Collaborative performance exhibition proposal Bringing a loss of control into an exhibiting group: a proposed series of actions and movements among thirty participants. 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 ## Work record 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](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey) ## 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. ## Continue exploring ### Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail A proposed bodily passage through digestion, birth and death, leaving performance time as traces and fragments. ### P4 Theater Spaces, participants, events and documentation change one another through sustained work. ### Hamlet’s Mirror Performers, projections and screens reflect one another as Hamlet is broken into shifting fragments. TAKE A PATH ACROSS ## Other paths from this work. [DOCUMENT RECORD](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/becoming-wind) Working together Who becomes the starting point [The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey) ↔ [Becoming Wind, Breaking Waves](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/becoming-wind) 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 Read the source materials Period document [A proposal concerned with loss of control ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey#chapter-1) The 2016 proposal aims at loss of control through actions involving a team of thirty; this is the proposal’s premise. Period document [How a personal story becomes a shared project ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/becoming-wind#chapter-1) The 2023 call jointly signed by Lifeng and He Fa starts from Lifeng’s account Ruma and invites collective writing, directing, performance and documentation. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=becoming-wind) Working together ### Who becomes the starting point [The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey) ↔ [Becoming Wind, Breaking Waves](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/becoming-wind) 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 Period document [A proposal concerned with loss of control ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey#chapter-1) The 2016 proposal aims at loss of control through actions involving a team of thirty; this is the proposal’s premise. The 2016 proposal aims at loss of control through actions involving a team of thirty; this is the proposal’s premise. Period document [How a personal story becomes a shared project ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/becoming-wind#chapter-1) The 2023 call jointly signed by Lifeng and He Fa starts from Lifeng’s account Ruma and invites collective writing, directing, performance and documentation. The 2023 call jointly signed by Lifeng and He Fa starts from Lifeng’s account Ruma and invites collective writing, directing, performance and documentation. Rules and choices The planned bounds of losing control [The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey) ↔ [Saturday Four-Hour Duel Club](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/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 Read the source materials Period document [A proposal concerned with loss of control ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey#chapter-1) The 2016 proposal aims at loss of control through actions involving a team of thirty; this is the proposal’s premise. Period document [Turning the ring into a theatre of judgment ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/duel-club#chapter-1) 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. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=duel-club) Rules and choices ### The planned bounds of losing control [The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey) ↔ [Saturday Four-Hour Duel Club](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/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 Period document [A proposal concerned with loss of control ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/invisible-odyssey#chapter-1) The 2016 proposal aims at loss of control through actions involving a team of thirty; this is the proposal’s premise. The 2016 proposal aims at loss of control through actions involving a team of thirty; this is the proposal’s premise. Period document [Turning the ring into a theatre of judgment ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/duel-club#chapter-1) 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. 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. FROM HERE, ELSEWHERE ## Passages between works ### Related records in the archive [Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon) 2016 (proposal document) [P4 Theater ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-theatre) 2015–present [Hamlet’s Mirror ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror) 2015