2015↗
Hamlet’s Mirror
Performers, projections and screens reflect one another as Hamlet is broken into shifting fragments.
Selected works2016 (proposal document) / Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation
Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail
A proposed bodily passage through digestion, birth and death, leaving performance time as traces and fragments.
- Author
- He Fa
- Document date
- PDF export recorded in August 2016
- Status
- Spatial narrative proposal; realization not verified
Complete chapter contents
A seventh chapter conceived as an ending
The original title identifies Time Canyon as “the concluding seventh chapter of The Great Chain of Being.” It separates two narrative strands: The Disappearing Tail as an absolute narrative and The Story of the Queen Bee as a relative narrative. The document preserves a conceptual structure and spatial intentions.
The body as a passage through time
The Disappearing Tail unfolds through a passage of excretion, a corridor of digestive time, womb-like warmth, weightless immersion and an inverted world. Birth, division, collision and fusion lead toward mimicry, competition and death. The proposal organizes narrative time through bodily sensations as well as the succession of events.
Five groups of keywords
The mind map develops five groups of keywords: failure, excretion, death, birth and fate. The Story of the Queen Bee provides another narrative material through which birth, competition and selection can be considered. It is retained here as creative material, rather than as a scientific account of bee biology.
The proposed final state
The document closes with the idea that “the time of performance finally becomes ruins and fragments.” The surviving PDF and MindNode file document the conception; they do not yet establish a final installation, performance date or venue.
Archive note
Prepared from He Fa Proposal.pdf and the corresponding original Time Canyon MindNode text. 2016 is the export year of the retained document. The board includes reference imagery.
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Work record
Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail, 2016 (proposal document). Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation. He Fa’s role: Proposal author: He Fa.
- Work / series
- Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail
- Date
- 2016 (proposal document)
- Medium
- Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation
- He Fa’s role
- Proposal author: He Fa
- Catalogue section
- Proposals
Cite this record: Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail · 2016 (proposal document) · Proposal author: He Fa · https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon
TAKE A PATH ACROSS
Other paths from this work.
Spaces transformed
Roads and passages within a body
Time Canyon / The Disappearing TailInside and Outside a Vehicle
Inside and Outside a Vehicle places roads and vehicles in repeated rows; Time Canyon proposes narrative through bodily passages. Both handle passage and segmentation, but photographic records and an imagined experience are different kinds of evidence.
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- Work imageImages and presentation ↗
The first image arranges roads, vehicles and nearby buildings in repeated horizontal rows.
- Period documentThe body as a passage through time ↗
The original PDF and mind map organize a sensory journey through digestive passages, birth and death; they establish a conception, not a built performance.
- Work imageImages and presentation ↗
Body and presence
How death enters an arrangement
Time Canyon / The Disappearing TailFinal Solution
Time Canyon proposes a bodily journey through birth and death; Final Solution prompts judgments through fictional elimination. One is a sensory narrative proposal, while the other has records of procedural practice and reflection.
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- Period documentThe body as a passage through time ↗
The original PDF and mind map organize a sensory journey through digestive passages, birth and death; they establish a conception, not a built performance.
- Period documentGiving the assembly the decision ↗
The May 2021 call and He Fa’s July account document questioning, voting, character departure and transcription with reflection; version differences remain explicit.
- Period documentThe body as a passage through time ↗
- DOCUMENT RECORD
Versions of a work
How a plan enters a collective archive
Time Canyon / The Disappearing TailThe Great Chain of Being: Planet Trilogy
Time Canyon describes itself as a closing chapter for The Great Chain of Being; institutional records separately confirm He Fa’s collective participation. The sources can be read together without turning the proposal into a verified constructed chapter.
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- Period documentParticipation in the institutional record ↗
The academy’s official artist list includes He Fa among advanced-study members, establishing collective participation, not individual authorship of the overall project or a specific installation.
- Period documentA seventh chapter conceived as an ending ↗
The original proposal’s title directly describes it as the concluding seventh chapter of Great Chain of Being; this establishes an intended relationship, not implementation.
- Period documentParticipation in the institutional record ↗
FROM HERE, ELSEWHERE
Passages between works
Related records in the archive
- Hamlet’s Mirror ↗2015
- Black Corridor of Spatiotemporal Echoes / Spatial Proposal ↗2016 (proposal document)