YOUTUBEP4C-0012016
影子对位法
Original Chinese title
Read “影子对位法” (P4C-001) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
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P4 THEATER / PUBLIC PROJECT INDEX
Every public project, one stable page
This index gives every public P4 project a stable English route and a direct path to its Chinese page. Each card also shows whether related public video is available to watch.
One lineage, two reading conditions
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English introductions and writing
p4theater.top brings P4’s key works, concepts and complete Chinese–English reading paths together.
02
Chinese project pages
This archive keeps dated Chinese pages, images and related events together.
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- public project pagesone route for each project
- 18
- projects with public video16 project pages currently focus on text and images
- 227
- public YouTube videoscurrent owner-channel register
- 51
- videos with caption signalsverified text and platform-only tracks
These project pages connect 184 texts and 1,122 images. Video totals reflect the current reviewed public channel register.
COMPLETE PUBLIC INDEX
One route for every public project
Where an established English title exists, it appears beside the Chinese title. Other projects keep their Chinese names until an English title becomes part of the work’s public life.
YOUTUBE
YOUTUBEP4C-0032016
Pixel Echo XIII
Original Chinese title
Read “Pixel Echo XIII” (P4C-003) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
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P4C-0042020
Real Image
实像
This early P4 method places the person holding the camera inside the encounter. Portraiture becomes a reciprocal performance witnessed by the image.
No public video on this page
Real Image unfolds here through photography, writing and participant memory. No public video is linked on this page.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0052020
致幻
Original Chinese title
Read “致幻” (P4C-005) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0062020
Cocoon
茧房
P4’s fifth public theatre work moved from an open call for performers and dancers to a performance on 31 October 2020. Bodily practice and participants’ own experience became shared compositional material.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0072020–2021
Howlers on the Rooftop
天台上的嚎叫者
The work began with a script and became a one-time performance on 2 January 2021. Rehearsal redistributed authorship across performers, the room and events nobody could fully anticipate.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0082021
控诉爱情失败后的中间派自救指南
Original Chinese title
Read “控诉爱情失败后的中间派自救指南” (P4C-008) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0092021
杀死那朵玫瑰花
Original Chinese title
Read “杀死那朵玫瑰花” (P4C-009) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0122021
决斗俱乐部
Original Chinese title
Read “决斗俱乐部” (P4C-012) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0142022
VORTEX
漩涡
Developed by Northwind Theater in early 2022 through roughly one month of collective creation, VORTEX moved between personal material, embodied action and group discussion. This archive distinguishes the 19–20 February rehearsal fragments and the 5 March film version from the complete public performance on 12 March.
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P4C-0172022
旋转楼梯
Original Chinese title
Read “旋转楼梯” (P4C-017) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
Spiral Staircase is represented here through writing and project images. No public video directly identified with the work is linked.
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P4C-0202022
波菲利娅
Original Chinese title
Read “波菲利娅” (P4C-020) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page brings together writing, photographs and the project timeline. No public video is linked.
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P4C-02413
绞肉机
Original Chinese title
Read “绞肉机” (P4C-024) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page brings together writing, photographs and the project timeline. No public video is linked.
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P4C-0252022
恋爱戏剧
Original Chinese title
Read “恋爱戏剧” (P4C-025) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page brings together writing, photographs and the project timeline. No public video is linked.
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P4C-02615
Kiss You, Kill Me
Original title
Read “Kiss You, Kill Me” (P4C-026) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page brings together writing, photographs and the project timeline. No public video is linked.
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P4C-02716
成风破浪
Original Chinese title
Read “成风破浪” (P4C-027) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page includes the project launch and participant call. No complete performance video is linked.
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P4C-0282023
四目
Original Chinese title
Read “四目” (P4C-028) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page brings together writing, photographs and the project timeline. No public video is linked.
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P4C-0292023
走出日常
Original Chinese title
Read “走出日常” (P4C-029) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page includes the project launch and participant call. No later project video is linked.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0302023
The Last Rehearsal
最后的排练
Performed on 26 August 2023, The Last Rehearsal is also a play within the film. Rehearsal, filming and spectatorship occupy one room while the right to judge what is real remains unsettled.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0362024
Twin Breeding
孽生繁殖
Shi Jiating’s 2024 exhibition and writing project works through an abandoned Tangshan youth, self-description and the instability of making another person into an image or object of knowledge.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0382020
p4U
p4U 计划
Announced in November 2020, p4U invited people to bring a proposal, form a temporary group and make work on the P4 stage. Each edition changed with its participants rather than repeating a fixed repertory model.
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P4C-03922
p4X 挑战
Original Chinese title
Read “p4X 挑战” (P4C-039) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
The available footage from the same day belongs to Buzhe Workshop; no standalone p4X video is available on this page.
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P4C-0402021
Purple Action
紫色行动
Across a series of actions beginning in 2021, players and spectators negotiated changing rules in real time. Theatre became a temporary political arrangement rather than a finished object presented to an audience.
No public video on this page
The related live excerpt appears with Duel Club and is not duplicated here.
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P4C-04924
个人志
Original Chinese title
Read “个人志” (P4C-049) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page includes public-account writing and participant calls. No public video is linked.
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YOUTUBEP4C-05025
幸福王国
Original Chinese title
Read “幸福王国” (P4C-050) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
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P4C-05526
捕鼠器
Original Chinese title
Read “捕鼠器” (P4C-055) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
The Mousetrap page is built around writing and project images. No public video directly identified with the work is linked.
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P4C-05627
辩证戏剧
Original Chinese title
Read “辩证戏剧” (P4C-056) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page includes the participant call. No video of a continuing group or completed work is linked.
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YOUTUBEP4C-06028
3P 小组
Original Chinese title
Read “3P 小组” (P4C-060) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0612021
北风剧社
Original Chinese title
Read “北风剧社” (P4C-061) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
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P4C-06430
玻璃剧团
Original Chinese title
Read “玻璃剧团” (P4C-064) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page follows the writing and connections around the project. No public video is linked.
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P4C-0712025–2026
行动者生成拓扑学
Original Chinese title
Read “行动者生成拓扑学” (P4C-071) through its Chinese project page, dates, photographs, writing and any public video connected to the work.
No public video on this page
This page includes one project-related audio work. No public video is linked.
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YOUTUBEP4C-0882023
Killing Mother
杀死母亲
Held in Beijing on 4 June 2023, Killing Mother began with writing brought into the room and developed through rotating roles, paired improvisations, group witnessing and collective debriefing. The archive keeps both a 6:52 curated documentary film and the complete 3:29:08 camera record.
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YOUTUBEP4E-00133
Iceberg
冰山
Developed through the Northwind Theater branch, Iceberg connects meetings, rehearsals, field filming, interviews, performance and critical response. The project can be followed across each of those moments.
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YOUTUBEP4E-0022023–2026
Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You
人类投降派
Recruitment, rehearsal, testimony, performance and filming form a single long relational process. The work carries P4’s experiments with cameras and participation into a film without resolving them into one stable genre.
Open project page English introduction
HOW TO READ
Begin with a question, not a canon
These pages follow P4 projects; they are not a general history of the field. Use the main-site Chinese experimental theater guide to locate the work in a wider context, then consult the P4 Theater profile for the organization’s own practice and vocabulary.
Understand
Use the main-site profile for a concise English introduction to P4 and its works.
Read the dates
Move through calls, performance notices and writing published after each event.
Keep moving
Follow people, events, images and neighbouring projects instead of stopping at one title.
NINE PROJECT LINEAGES
From Real Image to Human Surrender
01 / 102020–2024
Photography becomes a theatre for two people
Real Image
实像
This early P4 method places the person holding the camera inside the encounter. Portraiture becomes a reciprocal performance witnessed by the image.
Follow the project
Read the evolving method through invitations, participant accounts, image sequences and later retrospectives.
photographyencountertwo-person theatre
- texts
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- images
- 494
02 / 102020–2022
An open protocol for non-professional makers
p4U
p4U 计划
Announced in November 2020, p4U invited people to bring a proposal, form a temporary group and make work on the P4 stage. Each edition changed with its participants rather than repeating a fixed repertory model.
Follow the project
Follow the programme through recruitment calls, workshops, one-time performances and the projects that grew from it.
open programmeco-creationtemporary groups
- texts
- 46
- images
- 529
03 / 102020–2023
Bodies and lived material inside one compressed cycle
Cocoon
茧房
P4’s fifth public theatre work moved from an open call for performers and dancers to a performance on 31 October 2020. Bodily practice and participants’ own experience became shared compositional material.
Follow the project
Follow the call, performance notice, interviews and photographs in the order they appeared.
dance theatrerehearsalparticipant testimony
- texts
- 27
- images
- 457
04 / 102020–2022
A script altered by bodies, space and contingency
Howlers on the Rooftop
天台上的嚎叫者
The work began with a script and became a one-time performance on 2 January 2021. Rehearsal redistributed authorship across performers, the room and events nobody could fully anticipate.
Follow the project
Use the interviews after the performance to compare how different participants remember the same event.
one-time performancerehearsaloral history
- texts
- 28
- images
- 252
05 / 102021–2022
Players, votes and provisional rules generate the event
Purple Action
紫色行动
Across a series of actions beginning in 2021, players and spectators negotiated changing rules in real time. Theatre became a temporary political arrangement rather than a finished object presented to an audience.
Follow the project
Recruitment posts, player texts and adjacent Duel Club records reveal how each rule entered the situation.
playersvotingcollective action
- texts
- 23
- images
- 157
06 / 102021–2022
A work grows through meetings, filming and performance
Iceberg
冰山
Developed through the Northwind Theater branch, Iceberg connects meetings, rehearsals, field filming, interviews, performance and critical response. The project can be followed across each of those moments.
Follow the project
Begin with the project page, then continue through its events, interviews, photographs and moving images.
Northwind Theaterproduction networkcritical response
- texts
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- images
- 48
07 / 102023–2024
Theatre, documentary and fiction enter the same film process
Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You
人类投降派
Recruitment, rehearsal, testimony, performance and filming form a single long relational process. The work carries P4’s experiments with cameras and participation into a film without resolving them into one stable genre.
Follow the project
Follow the film through rehearsal, filming, performance and public responses, then continue to the English film guide.
filmtheatredocumentary relation
- texts
- 18
- images
- 221
08 / 102023
A performance inside the making of Human Surrender
The Last Rehearsal
最后的排练
Performed on 26 August 2023, The Last Rehearsal is also a play within the film. Rehearsal, filming and spectatorship occupy one room while the right to judge what is real remains unsettled.
Follow the project
Move from advance texts to the dated performance record, then compare the first reviews and participants’ after-echoes.
performancefilm-within-filmwitnessing
- texts
- 13
- images
- 96
09 / 102024
An exhibition tests copying, self-material and address
Twin Breeding
孽生繁殖
Shi Jiating’s 2024 exhibition and writing project works through an abandoned Tangshan youth, self-description and the instability of making another person into an image or object of knowledge.
Follow the project
Follow the exhibition alongside its personal moving images and the essay published after it.
exhibitionpersonal materialmoving image
- texts
- 3
- images
- 37
10 / 102023
A participatory salon turns an inherited role into shared action
Killing Mother
杀死母亲
Held in Beijing on 4 June 2023, Killing Mother began with writing brought into the room and developed through rotating roles, paired improvisations, group witnessing and collective debriefing. The archive keeps both a 6:52 curated documentary film and the complete 3:29:08 camera record.
Follow the project
Begin with the bilingual documentary report, then move between the public call, the timecoded complete record and the short non-linear film. The three-language machine captions are navigation evidence rather than a human-final transcript.
participatory theatredocumentary reportmotherhoodrole rotation
- texts
- 1
- images
- 4
Every project opens into a wider history
Continue into the timeline for dated situations, follow the photographs and videos, or return to the global site for P4’s complete English writing.