# Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail Canonical: https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon 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. 2016 (proposal document) / Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation A proposed bodily passage through digestion, birth and death, leaving performance time as traces and fragments. Complete original narrative board for Time Canyon, archived in 2016; includes reference imagery. Author He Fa Document date PDF export recorded in August 2016 Status Spatial narrative proposal; realization not verified ## 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](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon) ## 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. ## Continue exploring ### Hamlet’s Mirror Performers, projections and screens reflect one another as Hamlet is broken into shifting fragments. ### Black Corridor of Spatiotemporal Echoes / Spatial Proposal A black corridor intended as a necessary passage, extending the experience of space through touch, sound, sight and taste. TAKE A PATH ACROSS ## Other paths from this work. Spaces transformed Roads and passages within a body [Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon) ↔ [Inside and Outside a Vehicle](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chelichewai) 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. 2016 (proposal document) / Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation · Proposals 2009 / Photography, light box Read the source materials Work image [Images and presentation ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chelichewai#chapter-1) The first image arranges roads, vehicles and nearby buildings in repeated horizontal rows. Period document [The body as a passage through time ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon#chapter-2) The original PDF and mind map organize a sensory journey through digestive passages, birth and death; they establish a conception, not a built performance. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=chelichewai) Spaces transformed ### Roads and passages within a body [Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon) ↔ [Inside and Outside a Vehicle](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chelichewai) 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. 2016 (proposal document) / Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation · Proposals 2009 / Photography, light box Work image [Images and presentation ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/chelichewai#chapter-1) The first image arranges roads, vehicles and nearby buildings in repeated horizontal rows. The first image arranges roads, vehicles and nearby buildings in repeated horizontal rows. Period document [The body as a passage through time ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon#chapter-2) The original PDF and mind map organize a sensory journey through digestive passages, birth and death; they establish a conception, not a built performance. The original PDF and mind map organize a sensory journey through digestive passages, birth and death; they establish a conception, not a built performance. Body and presence How death enters an arrangement [Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon) ↔ [Final Solution](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/final-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. 2016 (proposal document) / Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation · Proposals 2021 / Participatory theatre, a deliberation game and process documentation Read the source materials Period document [The body as a passage through time ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon#chapter-2) 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 document [Giving the assembly the decision ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/final-solution#chapter-1) The May 2021 call and He Fa’s July account document questioning, voting, character departure and transcription with reflection; version differences remain explicit. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=final-solution) Body and presence ### How death enters an arrangement [Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon) ↔ [Final Solution](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/final-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. 2016 (proposal document) / Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation · Proposals 2021 / Participatory theatre, a deliberation game and process documentation Period document [The body as a passage through time ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon#chapter-2) The original PDF and mind map organize a sensory journey through digestive passages, birth and death; they establish a conception, not a built performance. 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 document [Giving the assembly the decision ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/final-solution#chapter-1) The May 2021 call and He Fa’s July account document questioning, voting, character departure and transcription with reflection; version differences remain explicit. The May 2021 call and He Fa’s July account document questioning, voting, character departure and transcription with reflection; version differences remain explicit. [DOCUMENT RECORD](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/great-chain-of-being) Versions of a work How a plan enters a collective archive [Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon) ↔ [The Great Chain of Being: Planet Trilogy](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/great-chain-of-being) 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. 2016 (proposal document) / Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation · Proposals 2016 / Collective intermedia project and performative installation Read the source materials Period document [Participation in the institutional record ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/great-chain-of-being#chapter-1) 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 document [A seventh chapter conceived as an ending ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon#chapter-1) 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. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=great-chain-of-being) Versions of a work ### How a plan enters a collective archive [Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon) ↔ [The Great Chain of Being: Planet Trilogy](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/great-chain-of-being) 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. 2016 (proposal document) / Proposal for spatial narrative, performance and a multisensory installation · Proposals 2016 / Collective intermedia project and performative installation Period document [Participation in the institutional record ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/great-chain-of-being#chapter-1) 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. 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 document [A seventh chapter conceived as an ending ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/time-canyon#chapter-1) 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. 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. FROM HERE, ELSEWHERE ## Passages between works ### Related records in the archive [Hamlet’s Mirror ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/hamlets-mirror) 2015 [Black Corridor of Spatiotemporal Echoes / Spatial Proposal ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/black-corridor-proposal) 2016 (proposal document)