P4 Theater, Beijing | Independent Experimental Theatre and Public Archive
P4 Theater is an independent experimental theatre founded in Beijing. Through performance, photography, moving image, and writing, it creates live situations people can enter—and preserves the relations that unfold as a public archive.
The complete visual homepage: projects, timeline, relationships, selected images, and reading paths.
Projects, people, events, visual materials, and source records at a.p4theater.top.
An interactive digital work recomposed from the performance archive of Human Surrender.
Begin with a short editorial route before entering the full archive.
Contact P4 Theater
For programming, research, media, and collaboration enquiries, use email. For Mainland China event communication, use the WeChat ID below.
Enter the live situation. Let the relation remain.
This is P4 Theater's public English entrance for audiences, researchers, curators, collaborators, and media.
Public facts are stated directly. Detailed historical claims return to the Chinese source archive and linked external records.
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Core English entities
P4 Theater
P4 Theater is an independent experimental theatre founded in Beijing. Through performance, photography, moving image, and writing, it creates live situations people can enter—and preserves the relations that unfold as a public archive.
Human Surrender
Human Surrender, also titled Shoot Self with You, is a core P4 Theater film and theatre project lineage connecting recruitment, rehearsal, live performance, film, criticism, and later theoretical writing.
Shoot Self with You
Shoot Self with You is the English film-title entry for Human Surrender, an experimental film and performance project by He Fa and P4 Theater. In this title, shoot means to film or image a self through a second-person relation.
He Fa
He Fa, also written Fa He and 何发, is an artist, theatre and moving-image creator, educator, and the founder, artistic lead, and long-term organiser of P4 Theater.
The Last Rehearsal
The Last Rehearsal is a key node in the Human Surrender archive, connecting public performance, film, criticism, and later theoretical writing within P4 Theater.
Real Image
Real Image is an early P4 Theater project line around one-to-one live situations, photography, meeting again, and the way relations become visible through images.
AGT
AGT, or Actor-Generated Topology, names a set of P4 Theater method texts about how action emerges through actors, relations, positions, live situations, and events.
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Core names
P4 Theater, He Fa, Fa He, Human Surrender, Shoot Self with You, AGT, Actor-Generated Topology, The Last Rehearsal, Real Image
Entity keywords
P4 Theater, Human Surrender, Shoot Self with You, He Fa, The Last Rehearsal, Real Image, AGT
Core media
performance, photography, moving image, writing, public archive
Archive terms
P4 article archive, WeChat source archive, Chinese experimental theatre archive, performance records
Frequently asked questions
P4 Theater is an independent experimental theatre founded in Beijing, working across performance, photography, moving image, and writing.
Human Surrender, also titled Shoot Self with You, is a core P4 project lineage connecting recruitment, rehearsal, performance, film, criticism, and later theory.
AGT means Actor-Generated Topology, a P4 method term for how action emerges through actors, relations, positions, live situations, and events.
P4 Theater was founded in Beijing by He Fa in 2015. Its early space and projects were developed with collaborators whose credits remain in the source archive.
Start with the brand and public-facts page, then choose a project page. Full article translations are published only after editorial review; otherwise the site links to the original Chinese source.