Mindy Myers & Kurt Chiang

Mindy and Kurt meet in-person after a long time apart. There is plenty to talk about, but they share a mutual aversion to the act of “catching up” -- they just don’t do it. “I guess we’re friends, but not those kinds of friends,” Mindy says. Kurt agrees. “Let’s say we have unfinished business,” they conclude. From there they move onto other topics like the technical aspects of Olympic diving, the operation and purpose of weather, car maintenance, behavioral psychology, the history of bumper stickers, and other things about which they know absolutely nothing.

Unfinished Business is a performance-in-process between Melinda Jean Myers and Kurt Chiang. In an effort to figure out their “business,” they create and improvise around physical and verbal motifs of Beginning (amateurism, not knowing, “five-six-seven-and...”) and Being (identity, specialty, “I’m this kind of person”), in an attempt to identify an Approach to the world that is open, generous, affirming, and accurate to themselves and others. Their jagged line of inquiry quickly leads to a precipice that quietly asks, “What’s next?,” leaving Mindy and Kurt to wonder if their business ends with a handshake, over a cliff, or off the edge of a springboard at a public pool in Iowa City.