Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

Statement

Dakota Guo (b. 1994, China) is a Rotterdam-based interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, installation, text, and sculpture. Her work explores ritual, liminality, and the ethics of relation between the living and the dead. Drawing from Han Chinese cosmologies, she engages the necrological imagination as poetic speculation. Through layered visual language and fictional narrative, she examines how memory, ghostliness, and symbolic economies persist.

Profile

GlogauAIR Project

During my residency, I will work on Permission to Trespass, a project exploring the ethical ambiguity of archaeological access to the dead. Using photogrammetry scans from cliff tombs in Sichuan, China, I reflect on burial as both spatial threshold and narrative rupture. In Berlin, I will research visual and archival conventions in archaeology while developing speculative fiction that gives voice to ghostly presences and unauthorized encounters—reimagining permission as a layered, unstable negotiation across worlds.

CV Summary

Dakota Guo holds an MA in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute (2022), an MA in Performance Practice-as-Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London (2017), and a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London (2016).

Her work has been presented internationally at venues including Available & The Rat (Rotterdam), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution (Amsterdam), Institute for Provocation (Beijing), CHAXART (Rotterdam), Times Art Museum (Chengdu), Make Room (Los Angeles), Goethe-Institut (Rotterdam), Centrale Fies (Dro), Performing Arts Forum (St. Erme), Posttheater (Arnhem), and Scheinspace (Hangzhou).

She is a co-initiator of the horror film duo project Chu Renmei & Hyejoo, and a founding member of Soupspoon Collective, a platform for Asian artists in the Netherlands.