2023–2024↗
Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You
A collective film grows through recruitment, rehearsal and public performance. How does shared time enter the edit?
Selected worksHE FA / COMPLETE INDEX
All works & records
A complete index of selected works, early explorations, collaborative practice and proposals. Each record identifies its section; search by title, year or medium.
60 entries
DOCUMENT
2023↗
Becoming Wind, Breaking Waves
A personal account by Lifeng calls others into a shared creative process.
Collaborative practice
2023↗
Personal Chronicle / PHA
Begin with a personal account, propose a project publicly, and continue the archive through action.
Collaborative practice
2023↗
Happiness Kingdom
Citizens emerge from discarded materials, and the characters made by participants continue to act and live.
Collaborative practice
2023↗
Breaking the Moon
A collaborative rehearsal process built around changing relationships between roles; directed by Xu Shuai, with He Fa credited as supervising producer.
Collaborative practice
2022↗
Vortex
A month of rehearsals and changing participants forms the company’s second production.
Collaborative practiceDOCUMENT
2022↗
Romance Theatre
Shared exercises and lived encounters return through documentation to theatre.
Collaborative practice
2022↗
World Question Center: Hangzhou Residency and A Common Festival
A month of collective work, from rehearsals at OōEli to a relocated programme on a public lawn.
Collaborative practice
2021–2023↗
Saturday Four-Hour Duel Club
Six fighters and a four-hour countdown: votes held by the audience continually change the event.
Collaborative practice
2021–2022↗
Iceberg
A small office and fifteen spectators: spatial proximity becomes part of the work.
Collaborative practice
2021↗
Purples / Purple Action
Roles, rules, speech and collective judgment become theatre within a jointly constructed fictional world.
Collaborative practice
2021↗
How to Eat a Banana?
A familiar act becomes a question to experience together.
Collaborative practice
2021↗
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.
Collaborative practice
2021↗
Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording
Cameras and writers enter rehearsal, making documentation a form of participation that can affect the event.
Collaborative practice
2021↗
Final Solution
Speech, judgment and voting become theatrical actions within a fictional end-of-world assembly.
Selected works
2020–2021↗
The Rooftop Howler
From recruitment and rehearsal to performance: tracing how shared work takes form.
Collaborative practice
2020↗
Hallucination
A theatre production connecting Shixiang with the emergence of the 3P group.
Collaborative practice
2020↗
Cocoon
Sixteen days and nights bring unfamiliar bodies, disagreements and shared work into the theatre.
Collaborative practice
2020↗
P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us
Moving from watching films to sharing personal accounts, the project calls its discussions “self-screening.”
Collaborative practice
2020↗
Paper Screening
Drawings are held up on stage as materials, bodies and conversation enter the act of looking.
Collaborative practice
2019–2020↗
Shixiang
Photographing and viewing alternate. Participants encounter their own image and decide whether it becomes public.
Selected works
2018↗
YourTube
Screens are connected and people sit together. When does connection become participation?
Selected works
2018↗
chinesesamericandream / Instagram Thesis
“Fa He’s thesis is a instagram account.” A short statement redirects the reading of a thesis to a social platform account.
Early explorations
2017↗
Fafalish
A sentence passes through translation, accent and transcription, becoming a situation between languages.
Selected worksDOCUMENT
2017↗
Fa’s review
A work-sample list preserves four recordings with different lengths and viewpoints.
Early explorationsDOCUMENT
2017↗
Long Long Ago / Project Proposal
A proposal for meeting across neighbourhoods and taking turns to host events.
Proposals
Listed in a 2016 proposal; public images and texts in 2022↗
Sangou GIF Theatre
A virtual character builds a theatre through repetition, transformation and brief pieces of language.
Selected works
2016↗
Shadow Counterpoint
A time-limited collective production becomes a looping narrative of GIFs and text.
Collaborative practiceDOCUMENT
2016↗
The Great Chain of Being: Planet Trilogy
Participation in a large collaborative project as a member of its advanced-study cohort.
Collaborative practice
2016 (proposal document)↗
Time Canyon / The Disappearing Tail
A proposed bodily passage through digestion, birth and death, leaving performance time as traces and fragments.
Proposals
2016 (proposal document)↗
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.
Proposals
2016↗
Hamlet’s Mirror / Four-screen CAFAM Proposal
From one screen to a four-sided enclosure, extending the displacement between audiences, performers and images.
Proposals
2016↗
The Invisible Odyssey / Performance Exhibition Proposal
Bringing a loss of control into an exhibiting group: a proposed series of actions and movements among thirty participants.
Proposals
2015–present↗
P4 Theater
Spaces, participants, events and documentation change one another through sustained work.
Collaborative practice
2015↗
Hamlet’s Mirror
Performers, projections and screens reflect one another as Hamlet is broken into shifting fragments.
Selected works
2014↗
Lose losing
An image experiment specified for projection on a surface at a variable scale.
Selected works
2014↗
Touch touching
Coloured circles fill an image whose scale depends on the space of projection.
Selected works
2013–2014↗
Wu
Works titled Wu reorganize photographs across landscapes, portraits, coloured points and writing.
Selected works
2013↗
Central
Placing the sun among the mountains rearranges a space that photography cannot ordinarily show.
Selected works
2013↗
Cocktail
Photographs taken while hiking are ordered by JPEG file size, allowing sky and ground to emerge from a digital sequence.
Selected works
2012–2014↗
Untitled
A complex assembly of more than ten thousand photographs carries the history of repeated work and a decision to stop.
Selected works
2012–2013↗
Gewu Studio / Twelve Water Lamps
Water held in form; photography reveals light, surfaces and the spaces between.
Selected works
2012–2013↗
Gewu Studio / Products and Spatial Experiments
From Wave Pen, Tantan and Cornices to screens and lighting, an archive of Gewu’s early work across products and art.
Collaborative practice
2012↗
Shanshui
From a distance, a landscape. Up close, photographs made at different times and positions.
Selected works
2012↗
I
A macro lens travels across the body; individual photographs assemble into an enlarged self-portrait.
Selected works
2012↗
Fragments
Dense horizontal bands divide the image into adjoining fragments.
Early explorations
2011↗
Illusion
Six bodily gestures appear suspended against a white field.
Early explorations
2010↗
Sanhetan
Trees, snow and the waterside are assembled across the seams of separate photographs.
Early explorations
2010↗
Shunan Bamboo Sea
A narrow vertical image joins trees, mountains and mist.
Early explorations
2010↗
Appearance Arises from the Mind
Mountains, trees and blocks of sky are rejoined within a circular boundary.
Early explorations
2010↗
Four-Dimensional People
Bodies are assembled from separate views, holding traces of walking, reading and working.
Early explorations
2010↗
Large Portraits / Portraits
Four portraits unfold alongside three enlarged details of each.
Early explorations
2009–2012↗
The Forbidden City
An architectural outline remains recognizable as details disperse through overlapping images.
Early explorations
2009↗
Yigui
Two images share a page: sharp repetition beside diffuse superimposition.
Early explorations
2009↗
Inside and Outside a Vehicle
Streets, vehicles and windows repeat through several different image structures.
Early explorations
2009↗
Field of View
Roads and buildings repeat in rectangular cells, presenting the city through adjoining views.
Early explorations
2009↗
Gathering
Tables, rooms and snow-covered ground form circular arrangements of distinct everyday scenes.
Early explorationsDOCUMENT
Date not recorded↗
N/A Magazine: Founding Contribution
A magazine collaboration arising from a course on art, technology and power.
Collaborative practiceBy 2016↗
Theatre Murder Case
An immersive experience created by FakingAosome at P4 Theater, combining drama and games.
Collaborative practice
2026–present↗
XIN GEWU
An inquiry into form, light and space, continuing from the act of photographing.
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How the catalogue is organised
Organised by each work’s place and significance within the practice, with completed works and research in progress identified. Developed early and co-authored works, alongside current projects with concrete research material, can appear in the selection. Early explorations, sustained collaborative practice and proposals have separate entrances.
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