# Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording Canonical: https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording, 2021. Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal. He Fa’s role: 3P group creator; author of the 3P recruitment text. 2021 / Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal Cameras and writers enter rehearsal, making documentation a form of participation that can affect the event. Image from the 2021 production-team and 3P group introduction. He Fa’s role 3P group creator; author of the 3P recruitment text Principal production credits Initiator/director Liu Ziluo; producer Zheng Anqi; dramaturg Sun Xiaoxing; writer Liu Ke Published 3P roster Sun Xiaoxing, He Fa, Li Wenqi, Pian Ziwei and Zhang Haolin ## Work record Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording, 2021. Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal. He Fa’s role: 3P group creator; author of the 3P recruitment text. Work / series Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording Date 2021 Medium Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal He Fa’s role 3P group creator; author of the 3P recruitment text Catalogue section Collaborative practice Cite this record: Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording · 2021 · 3P group creator; author of the 3P recruitment text · [https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p) [2021-05-13 · 3P Open Call: Witnessing and Recording Kill the Rose (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-05-13-招募-3P小组创作者-作为对第八期p4U-杀死那朵玫瑰花-事件的见证与记录者-2597238152/) [2021-05-24 · Kill the Rose: Production Team and the 3P Group (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-05-24-P4U-首部-野生互动音乐剧-杀死那朵玫瑰花-主创团队-X-3P小组介绍-2e65b9bb87/) [Original WeChat article (Chinese)](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3d21TUPoIUKjmVtd8tcLbA) WORK WORLD / OPEN FROM HERE What happens to an event when its record is published before it ends? ## A parallel creative process The eighth P4U project, Kill the Rose, was introduced as a “wild interactive musical”, with a story involving a leaked photograph and online violence. Alongside the production, He Fa authored a call for 3P creators to enter rehearsals, conversations, interviews and documentation. The public introduction of 24 May lists him in the 3P group and separately credits the production’s director, writer and team. The 3P call welcomed photography, writing, sound, moving image and other media. It required at least three releases during the monthly cycle and proposed an exhibition in the non-stage areas opening on the day of the performance. Observers were considered part of the environment, capable of affecting the event. Documentation therefore had its own rhythm and public form, speaking while rehearsal was still underway and bringing participants’ judgements into the work. ## He Fa’s source text · 2021 “A sincere observer continually includes themselves within the system.” Watching, performing and recording become a way of working together. The exhibition and release frequency were proposed rules; this page distinguishes that rule text from the published roster of creators. ## Moving image & related documents [2021-05-13 · 3P Open Call: Witnessing and Recording Kill the Rose (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-05-13-招募-3P小组创作者-作为对第八期p4U-杀死那朵玫瑰花-事件的见证与记录者-2597238152/) [2021-05-24 · Kill the Rose: Production Team and the 3P Group (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-05-24-P4U-首部-野生互动音乐剧-杀死那朵玫瑰花-主创团队-X-3P小组介绍-2e65b9bb87/) [Original WeChat article (Chinese) ↗](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3d21TUPoIUKjmVtd8tcLbA) ## Archive note Compiled from the listed P4 documents, with later recollections dated separately. Editorial description and source excerpts are distinguished. English translations were prepared for this archive. ## Continue exploring ### P4 Theater Spaces, participants, events and documentation change one another through sustained work. ### A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love Audience choices enter a debate about love; He Fa responds through a signed text. ### Personal Chronicle / PHA Begin with a personal account, propose a project publicly, and continue the archive through action. CLOSE READING / 2026 CURATORIAL INTERPRETATION ## Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording What happens to an event when its record is published before it ends? ### Begin with what happens in the work The 3P open call allowed multiple media and required at least three publications within a month. The rules proposed an exhibition outside the stage area opening with the performance; stage-production and 3P credits are listed separately. 3P does not wait until the play is finished to certify that it happened. Observers enter rehearsal, interviews and conversations and publish during the same production cycle. A remark can already have been read, judged and brought back into the room before opening night. Documentation is not merely the event’s later shadow: it becomes a condition of its continuation. Photography, writing and performance cross one another through an actual rhythm of publication. Acknowledging the observer’s presence does not erase differences between observer and observed. Editing power, publication timing and the consequences of circulation still require particular decisions. The original rules leave ownership for members to negotiate, showing that even the identity of a work’s author is produced through collaboration. A presentation should unfold stage production and documentation in parallel, with their separate makers and dates, so viewers can see one event generating different works that affect one another. ### The limits of this reading Three publications and a simultaneous exhibition opening were requirements; each member’s actual output needs its own publication evidence. Based on He Fa’s signed 3P open call of 13 May 2021 and the production / 3P roster of 24 May. [Work archive and source documents](#work-record) [2021-05-13 · 3P Open Call: Witnessing and Recording Kill the Rose (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-05-13-招募-3P小组创作者-作为对第八期p4U-杀死那朵玫瑰花-事件的见证与记录者-2597238152/) [2021-05-24 · Kill the Rose: Production Team and the 3P Group (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2021/2021-05-24-P4U-首部-野生互动音乐剧-杀死那朵玫瑰花-主创团队-X-3P小组介绍-2e65b9bb87/) TAKE A PATH ACROSS ## Other paths from this work. Keeping and losing Publication becomes part of the work [Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p) ↔ [chinesesamericandream / Instagram Thesis](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chinesesamericandream) The Instagram thesis statement treats an account as the thesis; 3P makes publication during production a rule. Both include public entry points in the work, but the account’s historical posts have not been fully read, so their sequence cannot be supplied. 2021 / Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal 2018 / Network-based work, Instagram account, thesis Read the source materials Artist’s statement [A thesis located in an account ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chinesesamericandream#chapter-1) The original 2018 Fa He.docx designates an Instagram account as the thesis; historical posts have not been fully read and no posting sequence is supplied. Period document [A parallel creative process ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p#chapter-1) He Fa’s signed 3P call requires at least three publications within one month, retained separately from the play’s director, writer and 3P participant lists. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=chinesesamericandream) Keeping and losing ### Publication becomes part of the work [Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p) ↔ [chinesesamericandream / Instagram Thesis](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chinesesamericandream) The Instagram thesis statement treats an account as the thesis; 3P makes publication during production a rule. Both include public entry points in the work, but the account’s historical posts have not been fully read, so their sequence cannot be supplied. 2021 / Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal 2018 / Network-based work, Instagram account, thesis Artist’s statement [A thesis located in an account ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chinesesamericandream#chapter-1) The original 2018 Fa He.docx designates an Instagram account as the thesis; historical posts have not been fully read and no posting sequence is supplied. The original 2018 Fa He.docx designates an Instagram account as the thesis; historical posts have not been fully read and no posting sequence is supplied. Period document [A parallel creative process ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p#chapter-1) He Fa’s signed 3P call requires at least three publications within one month, retained separately from the play’s director, writer and 3P participant lists. He Fa’s signed 3P call requires at least three publications within one month, retained separately from the play’s director, writer and 3P participant lists. Keeping and losing Sometimes recording, sometimes not [Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p) ↔ [P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings) P4 Screenings’ September rules keep discussion unrecorded; 3P requires at least three publications in a month. An encounter may need preservation or privacy. Together these arrangements make recording a responsibility to choose, rather than an automatic good. 2021 / Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal 2020 / Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice Read the source materials Period document [From screening to self-screening ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings#chapter-1) The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. Period document [A parallel creative process ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p#chapter-1) He Fa’s signed 3P call requires at least three publications within one month, retained separately from the play’s director, writer and 3P participant lists. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=p4-screenings) Keeping and losing ### Sometimes recording, sometimes not [Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p) ↔ [P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings) P4 Screenings’ September rules keep discussion unrecorded; 3P requires at least three publications in a month. An encounter may need preservation or privacy. Together these arrangements make recording a responsibility to choose, rather than an automatic good. 2021 / Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal 2020 / Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice Period document [From screening to self-screening ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings#chapter-1) The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. Period document [A parallel creative process ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p#chapter-1) He Fa’s signed 3P call requires at least three publications within one month, retained separately from the play’s director, writer and 3P participant lists. He Fa’s signed 3P call requires at least three publications within one month, retained separately from the play’s director, writer and 3P participant lists. 2026-10-04 / ARCHIVAL ADDITION ## Source materials, process and versions Character biographies, an outline and the script offer different stages of writing. Fictional actions are retained as script material rather than rewritten as factual events. [杀死那朵玫瑰花 人物小传.docx ↗](https://b.p4theater.cn/sources/cv-kill-the-rose-759c7ffc37ff) [杀死那朵玫瑰花 剧本大纲.docx ↗](https://b.p4theater.cn/sources/cv-kill-the-rose-374a6fdcd592) [杀死那朵玫瑰花 剧本.docx ↗](https://b.p4theater.cn/sources/cv-kill-the-rose-29ef10106838) [Follow the other material strands ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/reading/materials-and-process#kill-the-rose) FROM HERE, ELSEWHERE ## Passages between works [When another person enters](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/paths/another-person) Observers join work in progress and affect it through concurrent publication. Observers join work in progress and affect it through concurrent publication. ### Related records in the archive [P4 Theater ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-theatre) 2015–present [A Centrist’s Self-Rescue Guide After the Failure of Love ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/centrists-self-rescue) 2021 [Personal Chronicle / PHA ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/personal-chronicle) 2023