Why is mysticism relevant today and how can the dance floor be a place to build a bridge between personal and transpersonal?

Transdisciplinary artist and educator MX Oops uses the embodied methodologies of club culture to explore how the dance floor creates a unique opportunity to expand and deepen our senses.
In this session, they will share the forthcoming essay “ECSTATIC AESTHETICS: Queer Mysticism.” The essay queries: if mysticism includes a fluid movement beyond polarities of self and other, masculine and feminine, beyond binaries, is mysticism inherently queer? It unpacks how dance floor mystics harness spiritual energies on and off the dancefloor and how this augments identity, shifting culture.

Discussion will include reflection on Jeffery Gibson’s current exhibition, POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT, highlighting how the ecstatic is a disruptive aesthetic language used to infuse spirit into the everyday.