MX Oops
UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL
Bio/About
MX Oops is a NYC-based dancefloor mystic, transmedia artist, and educator. Their performances use the ecstatic disobedience of queer club culture to expand and deepen the senses, especially our sense of connection to each other. Their work has been presented across the U.S., Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean.
UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL is a party and multimedia performance exploring what is unfinished in human consciousness. Media are extensions of the senses and here all of the senses are extended as a call to action to remember the club can be a place to center the sacred.
UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL was developed in the Live Feed Creative Residency at New York Live Arts with support from the National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund.
Residencies/Support
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship - Dance
Barnard College
University of Florida
University of Maryland
New Waves! Dance Institute Artist-In-Residence
BLOOMFest, Accra, Ghana
Performances
New York Live Arts 2024
Queerium, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 2025
New Waves! Festival 2025, Bridgetown Barbados
afterGLOW Festival 2025, Dance Place, Washington D.C.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), activation of Jeffery Gibson's exhibition, POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT, 2025
Research & Development
The question driving the project was- how can the tracing spiritual foundations of nyc club culture reveal new ways to center the sacred through an ecstatic aesthetic? And, how are the ecstatic aesthetics of NYC club culture linked to Afro-Caribbean traditions of Carnival? Through a residence with New Waves Dance Institute, MX Oops collaborated with designer and Mas band leader Robert Young, wearing this banana leaf garment. Photographed by Arnaldo James near Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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Collaboration
UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL included collaboration with TR!GGERED (music composition, body building), Jason A. Rodriguez (choreography, dance), Monte Alarcon (music, vocal artist), Renée Alberts (poetry), Rodrigo Salles (hair, makeup), Eva Davidova (augmented reality), Sekou Luke (photography, video), Fabian Gomez (lighting design), Olubode Shawn Brown (collective advisor), Vincent Cacialano (dramaturg) and Thomas F. DeFrantz (research advisor).
A series of trips to the Domincan Republic brought the crew for filming and collaboration with Santo Domingo-based party, Queerium. The journey included yoga and meditation for the crew, developing a shared sense of the sacred.
Images and video from this journey were woven through the performance in the video design and also shared as an interactive audio-visual installation. This included custom neon signs, video, 40' image collage wallpaper, a 3'x6' lightbox, and augmented reality interactivity where still images in the wallpaper reveal hidden video through the use of Artivive app.
