Main Archive
English Edition
P4 MAIN ARCHIVE / PUBLIC ACCESS · 2015–2026
The performance ends.
The archive keeps happening.
P4 Theater’s works, participants, events, writing and moving images are reconnected here as a searchable public archive, with each page connected to the place and time in which it began.
- 700+
- public records
- 554
- Chinese articles
- 89
- project pages
- 4,385
- preserved images
ONE PRACTICE · TWO CORE ROLES
Main site and archive, connected by design
The global site introduces P4’s works, ideas and writing. This main archive lets you move through projects, dates, photographs, moving images and the people who took part.
For orientation beyond the records, the main site provides a field guide to Chinese experimental theater and a separate P4 Theater profile. From either page, you can return here to follow the projects through time.
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Works · concepts · writing
Start here for P4 Theater, Human Surrender, He Fa, AGT and the complete Chinese–English article archive.
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Projects · events · images · memory
Stay here to search project pages, events, articles, photographs, videos and participant memory.
OpenFour ways into the archive
You do not need to read chronologically. Begin with the clue you already have; the archive carries it into related records.
Project lineages
Follow works and long-running programmes through related events, writing, photographs and moving images.
Explore 2015–2026Events and time
Move through calls, rehearsals, performances, screenings, workshops and public responses.
Explore 700+ public recordsPublic catalogue
Search published texts, images, videos, production materials and oral histories across connected projects.
Explore 73+ curated videosMoving image
Watch films, rehearsals, interviews and performance footage, then continue into the projects around them.
ExploreSELECTED PROJECT LINEAGES
Start with six dense constellations
18 TEXTS · 221 IMAGESHuman Surrender / Shoot Self with You
P4’s central film-and-theatre lineage: recruitment, rehearsal, testimony, performance and filming held inside one long relational process.
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19 TEXTS · 48 IMAGESIceberg
Meetings, rehearsals, field filming, interviews, premieres and later responses form one long project trail.
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56 TEXTS · 494 IMAGESReal Image
An early P4 method beginning with photography, portraiture and the encounter between two people.
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27 TEXTS · 457 IMAGESCocoon
A performance built from bodies, dance and participants’ lived material, preserved through calls, rehearsal records and interviews.
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28 TEXTS · 252 IMAGESHowlers on the Rooftop
A scripted work transformed in rehearsal by participants, space and contingency, followed by a dense interview archive.
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23 TEXTS · 157 IMAGESPurple Action
An event series in which players, voting, provisional rules and collective action continuously generate the theatre.
Open Chinese project pageONE PRACTICE · CONNECTED PUBLIC SURFACES
The P4 digital network
Begin with the question that brought you here: meet P4, search the archive, watch the film, read the books, or enter through He Fa’s wider artistic practice.
Every archive remains open to correction
If you took part in a P4 project, you can add context, identify a source, correct a date or propose a different account. Publication follows a rights and privacy review.