Multimedia performance artist MX Oops — who was invited by Jeffrey Gibson to present in his exhibition POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT — will create an evening-length event based on the concept of ecstatic aesthetics.

MX Oops, master of ceremonies, will invite you, the party people, into a sound bath turned DJ set. Diving into the world of their recent work, UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL, they welcome you to this party and multimedia performance inside building 5 that uses the vibrant aesthetics of queer nightlife culture to reveal how cognitive bias connects us all. This is a journey toward wholeness, through bass, bars, and ecstatic bodies in motion. Come with your dancing shoes on to bounce, pulse, and twirl together to the sounds of global bass.

About the Artist
MX Oops is a transmedia performance artist and educator whose work centers hybridity, encouraging ecstatic disobedience as a path toward embodied wellness. Their interdisciplinary practice combines dance, video design, costume/textile design, DJing, rap, and guided meditation. Through this multisensory approach, their work questions whether consciousness itself is the primary medium. The party is the point of departure, a queer site of transnational Afro-diasporic imagining. MX is the founder of Complex Stability, a research and multimedia production company, and an assistant professor in the Dance Program in Lehman College’s Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre & Dance.

A certified yoga instructor (500hr RYT) and practitioner of Thai Yoga Massage, trained in various forms of energy healing, they completed a BA in dance and religion at the George Washington University and completed an Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Dance, Multimedia Performance, and Somatic Studies in the Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre & Dance at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA.

Photo: MX Oops