Dakota Guo

artistiek onderzoek - performance - video

Dakota Guo (b. 1994, Taiyuan) is a Rotterdam-based Chinese artist. Reiterating cultural experiences of proto- or quasi-religious narratives, her practice-as-research is described as "pseudo-theory making" through performances, videos, installations, texts, and soundscapes. In her recent projects, she seeks ominous revelations of a "corpse-ghost" continuum, investigating the (cosmo-)necrological infrastructure of Han Chinese society, specifically the construction of its netherworld as a tangible reality. This speculative approach renders her peculiar obsession with ghostly matters and their materialization a post-secular revision of "haunting."

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    • SOUPSPOON's Summer Lab residency at Rib

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-07-2023 t/m 02-09-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Rib
    • Locatie: Rib, Rotterdam
    • Through "midnight dinners" and a final 24 hour marathon program "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity," SOUPSPOON Collective have been proposing an alternative approach to the modern, normative parameters of time to experiment with how capitalist temporality might be stretched and compressed simultaneously.

    Retracing the current; follow the current, I wander.

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 25-07-2023 t/m 13-08-2023
    • In samenwerking met: CHAxArtxRTM
    • Locatie: CHAxArtxRTM, Rotterdam
    • Dakota Guo's video installation "( ) is ominous of ( )" was part of the group exhibition "Retracing the current; follow the current, I wander" at CHAxArtxRTM, curated by Feng Jiao.

    Duo project "Chu Renmei & Hye Joo"

    Performance

    • 08-03-2023 t/m 17-06-2023
    • In samenwerking met: "Open Rehearsal #2"
    • Locatie: If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam
    • In the duo project "Chu Renmei and Hye-Joo" two daredevil friends, Miyoung Chang and Dakota Guo, come together in an attempt to study and exhaust the conventions of East Asian horror filmmaking.
    • https://ificantdance.studio/open-rehearsal/chu-renmei-and-hye-joo

    Investigating The Dialectic of Arrival

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 15-09-2022 t/m 15-12-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Goethe Institute, Rotterdam
    • Locatie: , Rotterdam
    • Soupspoon's collective residence project "Investigating The Dialectic of Arrival" at Goethe Institute, Rotterdam. The collective organized two public tea sessions and an open studio. Soupspoon consists of Pitchaya Ngamcharoen (TH), Raffia Li (CN), Maoyi (CN), Miyoung Chang (KR) and Dakota Guo (CN). Soupspoon is cultivating a common, Asian contextualized space for the particular, which eludes translation, as well as for an art practice of "minor gestures" and "micro politics".
    • https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/kul/gin/ssp.html

    How Will You Ascertain Time?

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 30-04-2022 t/m 27-05-2022
    • In samenwerking met: curated by Hajra Haider Karrar and Sagal Farah
    • Locatie: SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
    • The performance installation "I snuggle into the tomb bed from my wedding chamber my hair is the quilt the spirit-guiding streamer" (2022) was included in SAVVY Contemporary's group exhibition “How Will You Ascertain Time?” curated by Hajra Haider Karrar and Sagal Farah. The performance took place at the opening of the show.
    • https://www.savvy-contemporary.com/en/projects/2022/how-will-you-ascertain-time/