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Philly April 18th - Fringearts, PHILLY
NYC April 22nd - Joes Pub, NYC
LA May 12th - Zebulon
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Jibz Cameron is a writer, performer, visual artist and actor. She is most well known for her ulti-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag, which has spanned over 20 years and has been presented at arts venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, Centre Pompidou among others. Jibz is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. Her film Weirdo Night, directed by Mariah Garnett is an official 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection. In May of 2023 she premiered a new theater piece called Titanic Depression. She released her fist comedy record, The Bored Identity, on Wacky Wacko records in November 2023. Jibz maintains a long of drawing and painting and is honored to be included in 2023’s MADE IN LA Biennial at The Hammer. Jibz is also an actor, even tho its embarassing. She lirvs and lorvs in Lors Angeles but larffs in NYCrty.
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"Dynasty Handbag assumes the trappings of femininity in configurations zany and over-the-top, garbling gender codes in outrageous formulations. Digressions, rhymes, and false starts riddle her one-woman acts, providing unexpected pathways into material taken from commercials, pop songs, and tidbits of art history. As cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz writes, “Dynasty Handbag’s queer failure is not an aesthetic failure but, instead, a political refusal. It is going off script, and the script in this instance is the mandate that makes queer and other minoritarian cultural performers work not for themselves for but distorted cultural hierarchy.” - The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
Autobiographical poem written by Jibz Cameron, age 10 in her closet.