Dakota Guo is a visual artist and researcher from China, currently based in the Netherlands. She holds a Master of Arts from the Dutch Art Institute. Working primarily through installation—alongside video, text, performance, and objects—Guo’s practice explores the ethics of relation between the living and the dead.

Drawing from Han Chinese funerary traditions, her ongoing research, Tools for Speculative Archaeology (2023–), reimagines archaeology as a form of ritual trespass. The first case study, An Archaeological Report Sent to the Underworld (2024), proposed the speculative restitution of a forged tomb-quelling document to its deceased owner, staging a gesture of ancestral justice.

At GlogauAIR, Guo is developing the second case study, Permission to Trespass, which extends this critique by shifting from restitution to the ethics of access. What does it mean to enter tombs—spaces not meant for the living—without invitation? Who grants permission when the dead cannot answer? Based on LiDAR scans performed during an unauthorized visit to two Eastern Han cliff tombs in Sichuan, the project takes the form of a video installation accompanied by a series of phantom archive materials. Centered on a virtual reconstruction that imagines a dwelling from the tomb owner's perspective, the work unfolds as a fragmented field log—staging a dialogue between the speculative archaeologist and the ghosts of the tomb’s owner and its visitors.