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Collaborative practice2017 / Collective art project proposal
Long Long Ago / Project Proposal
A proposal for meeting across neighbourhoods and taking turns to host events.
- Collective named in the text
- Long Long Ago Group
- Status
- Proposal; no realized programme established by the records reviewed here
- Proposed location
- Districts of San Francisco
- Proposed event period
- 1 January 2018–31 January 2019
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Working together in the proposal
The proposal identifies shared experience, life, time and space as its starting points. It envisages selecting artists from different districts of San Francisco to form a new collective, then travelling between their districts to hold events. Each participating artist would host and curate the event in their own area. Performance, installation, exhibition and other forms were encouraged, in homes or public spaces.
The text sets out recruitment, announcements and a year-long sequence of events, through which different communities might encounter one another repeatedly. These are plans within a proposal, not evidence of a realized exhibition or public programme. The ideas and timetable are retained as a document of possible collective work. The body names the group; He Fa’s specific responsibilities require further documentation.
Archive note
Based on Fa He_AltEx_LongLongAgo.docx. The dates 2017–2019 refer to the application milestones and planned events in the proposal, not a verified production or realization period. The proposed 27 districts, 54-week schedule and participant numbers are not reported as completed outcomes. The original English project name is retained.
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Long Long Ago / Project Proposal, 2017. Collective art project proposal. He Fa’s role: Proposal retained in the artist’s archive; the document does not specify He Fa’s project role.
- Work / series
- Long Long Ago / Project Proposal
- Date
- 2017
- Medium
- Collective art project proposal
- He Fa’s role
- Proposal retained in the artist’s archive; the document does not specify He Fa’s project role
- Catalogue section
- Proposals
Cite this record: Long Long Ago / Project Proposal · 2017 · Proposal retained in the artist’s archive; the document does not specify He Fa’s project role · https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/long-long-ago
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Possible extension is not completed extension
Long Long Ago / Project ProposalAppearance Arises from the Mind
The thesis discussion of Appearance Arises from the Mind imagines an extended scroll; Long Long Ago proposes rotating through neighbourhoods. Both open directions for expansion, but projected length and programme scale are not completed totals.
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- Artist’s statementThe artist’s account in the 2012 thesis ↗
The 2012 thesis Looking for Shanshui Photography describes cropping, scaling and subjective arrangement, and proposes possible extension into a long scroll; the length is hypothetical.
- Period documentWorking together in the proposal ↗
The original proposal envisages artists from different neighbourhoods taking turns to host activities; recruitment and the year-long schedule are plans, not completion records.
- Artist’s statementThe artist’s account in the 2012 thesis ↗
Spaces transformed
Taking turns and moving temporarily
Long Long Ago / Project ProposalWorld Question Center: Hangzhou Residency and A Common Festival
Long Long Ago proposes rotating gatherings through San Francisco neighbourhoods; the Hangzhou residency experienced recruitment, cancellation and relocation. Shared spaces depend on organization in both, but planned routes and documented changes remain distinct.
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- Period documentWorking together in the proposal ↗
The original proposal envisages artists from different neighbourhoods taking turns to host activities; recruitment and the year-long schedule are plans, not completion records.
- Period documentKeeping changes within the work’s record ↗
The April proposal, May relocation notice and July account separately record plans, cancellation and relocation, and later recollection, retaining their distinct event status.
- Period documentWorking together in the proposal ↗
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Related records in the archive
- P4 Theater ↗2015–present
- Fa’s review ↗2017