Tools for Speculative Archaeology (2023–present) treats archaeology as a speculative method within an ongoing inquiry into underworld infrastructures and the agency of corpse–ghosts. Rather than approaching archaeology as an empirical practice of recovery, the project understands it as a set of operations—burial, excavation, restitution, documentation—that unfold across the realms of the living and the dead.

The fictional figure of the “speculative archaeologist” works through recurring procedures and motifs that circulate across case studies. Economies of offering, spatial measurements, and linguistic slippages—such as between Míngqì (明器) and Míngqì (冥契)—reframe burial objects and records as instruments of transaction rather than static remains.

Within this framework, materials produced through different installations are also registered as artefacts and documents. Individually documented objects are presented in an archaeological register, foregrounding their material properties and procedural roles as tools within an ongoing research project.