Missing Person (2022/2023)
A multisite guerrilla reading performance
The performance happens at where people presumably went missing or will go missing soon.
An excerpt of a performance at Sun Tunnel Utah on June 10th, 2023. I returned to Sun Tunnel after being there for the first time in early June 2022 where I briefly joined a group of people in search for a teenager named Dylan Rounds who went missing near the site in late May 2022.
Transcription of one performance:
2022.07.04
Height: unknown
Hair: black, short, and a little spike on the top
Eye color: dark brown as I imagined
Last seen:
Sitting right next to a fountain in Plaza Uruguay, facing the other way, listening to the tranquil sound of the water falling with an earphone on.
He sneezed for a while, probably caught a cold. He wears more clothes than anyone around him, he has a black/navy blue jacket which looks very thick. Also a pair of long pants. He sneezed repeatedly which made him seem very weak. Before he began to swing his upper torso back and forth, he lowered his head to ignore whatever happened around him. He didn’t even look at the two brown and white dogs that have curly furs when they jumped right next to him. The dogs are apparently hurt by his limited response, when they are passing me, they ignore my smile.
He doesn’t take his backpack off even though he has been sitting down for a while, as if he is always ready to leave.
2022.07.14
Height: about 5 feet
Hair color: black, dark brown, with a pinkish red highlight in the end
Eye color: unknown, I spent too much time looking at her curly hair
Last seen:
Standing in line waiting for Covid test at Chopo Tacuba. She seems bored by how long the waiting time is, but is not showing it in an obvious way. Like she already got used to how long a line is in this kind of institution. She
I’m tired of continuing my transcription, I still have many more handwriting pages, I don’t want to transcribe them anymore.