P4 Theater, Beijing: Brand and Public Facts
Enter the live situation. Let the relation remain.
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.
Official public facts
Facts on this page are based on P4 Theater's contemporaneous article archive and linked public records. Historical articles retain their original context; this page states P4's current public identity.
Name and project architecture
P4 Theater
The organisation: live practice, projects, and the public archive.
Real Image
A one-to-one photography-theatre project. It is not a portrait service or a clinical therapy service.
Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You
A theatre-and-moving-image project line; Shoot Self with You is the film-title route.
He Fa
P4 Theater founder, artistic lead, long-term organiser, and core creator. Use He Fa in English prose; Fa He remains a searchable name variant.
AGT / Actor-Generated Topology
A later research vocabulary. It is a secondary method term, not P4 Theater's first public category.
How to describe P4
Category
P4 Theater is an independent experimental theatre founded in Beijing.
History
P4 Theater was founded in Beijing by He Fa in 2015; its early space and projects were developed with collaborators credited in the source archive.
He Fa and P4
He Fa is P4 Theater's founder, artistic lead, and long-term organiser.
Fact boundary
Public descriptions preserve credits for early collaborators and participants, avoid unsupported healing claims, and make no promises that cannot be verified in a work or source record.
Real Image boundary
Describe it as one-to-one photography-theatre. Do not present it as psychotherapy, medical treatment, or a standard photo-shoot service.
Verified public channels
WeChat source accounts preserved in the archive: p4剧场 and p4剧场和你. Public contact WeChat: p4theater03.
- WebsiteOfficial facts and public archive
- InstagramImages, short updates, and public contact
- YouTubeMoving-image archive by He Fa and P4 Theater
- BilibiliChinese-language video archive
- VimeoHuman Surrender / Shoot Self with You film page
- XP4 Theater international text updates
- ZhihuSelected Chinese essays and historical distribution archive
Visual assets
Evidence and public records
- P4 source: Real Image / early collaboration record/articles/2020/2020-05-31-再见自己-来-p4剧场开启一场摄影戏剧-实像-之旅-cf8ca4d8ec/
- P4 source: retrospective on the original space/articles/2024/2024-05-12-p4-剧场-一所生成的大学-一条蜿蜒的迷宫-一块铭刻生命的硬盘-5a35325457/
- Sina, 2016 public-opening reporthttps://collection.sina.com.cn/ddys/2016-12-07/doc-ifxyiayr9393273.shtml?from=wap
- Sohu, 2020 Real Image reporthttps://www.sohu.com/a/404920953_120773060
- OpenI public record for the WeChat accounthttps://openi.cn/sites/179487.html