Public Archive
English Edition
P4 PUBLIC ARCHIVE / 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—without erasing the conditions in which each record was made.
- 700+
- public records
- 554
- source articles
- 89
- project keys
- 4,385
- preserved images
ONE PRACTICE · TWO CORE ROLES
Main site and archive, connected by design
The main domain establishes what P4 is and publishes its complete bilingual writing. This subdomain preserves how projects happened: records, dates, sources, media, rights and relations.
For orientation beyond the records, the main site provides a field guide to Chinese experimental theater and a separate P4 Theater profile. The archive remains the evidence layer for both.
p4theater.top
Identity · concepts · full writing
Start here for P4 Theater, Human Surrender, He Fa, AGT and the complete Chinese–English article archive.
Open 02 / P4 NETWORKa.p4theater.top
Records · provenance · relations
Stay here to search project files, event records, source 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 text, image, video, production and oral-history records with their provenance.
Explore 73+ curated videosMoving image
Watch public access copies and enter film, rehearsal, interview and performance collections.
ExploreSELECTED PROJECT LINEAGES
Start with six dense constellations
18 SOURCE 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 SOURCE TEXTS · 48 IMAGESIceberg
A deep production dossier connecting meetings, rehearsals, field filming, interviews, premieres and later critical response.
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56 SOURCE TEXTS · 494 IMAGESReal Image
An early methodological source for P4, beginning with photography, portraiture and the encounter between two people.
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27 SOURCE 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 SOURCE 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 SOURCE TEXTS · 157 IMAGESPurple Action
An event series in which players, voting, provisional rules and collective action continuously generate the theatre.
Open original-language dossierONE PRACTICE · CONNECTED PUBLIC SURFACES
The P4 digital network
These are not competing copies. Each address has a distinct reading task, while shared project names, entity links and source records keep the network connected.
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.