Jibz Cameron is a queer performance, recording, and video artist most known for her work produced under the persona Dynasty Handbag, an alter ego created in 2001.
[5] Despite not graduating high school, Cameron applied to the San Francisco Art Institute after some friends encouraged her,[4] and was accepted after she submitted some Edward Gorey-style comics she drew.
[6] Cameron gave a summery about the persona in a Artsy interview: “[Dynasty Handbag] was a music-based project, but it was very performative and had a lot of interruptions of disembodied voices and disassociated, fragmented thoughts, and other things going on while I was on stage.
She was highly dressed-up, and a failure at womanhood.” [7] Dynasty Handbag tends to wear thick and messy makeup with outlandish outfits on stage, such as a black spandex swimsuit or a vintage long-sleeved shirt and transparent tights tucked into oversized, gold granny panties.
[10] Past guest stars of Weirdo Night include: Joseph Keckler, Jack Black, Tanya Hayden, Kate Berlant, Puddles Pity Party, John Early, Mitra Jouhari, Xina Xurner, Sarah Squirm, River Ramirez, Francesca D’Uva, Anna Homler, emotional store, Christina Catherine Martinez, Marley Eat My Ass Gotterer, Kristina Wong, Jerry Jergens, Marawa The Amazing, Naz Riahi, Wild Yawp, Rudy Blue Martinez, Nao Bustamante, Carrie Brownstein, Tashi Condolee, Hardcore Tina, Seth Bogart, Charles Galin, John C Rielly, Kathleen Hanna, Trap Girl, San-Cha, Maria Bamford, Cole Escola, eddy kwon, Jack Ferver, Holland Andrews, Illustrious Pearl, Svetlana Kitto, Meriem Benanni, Raphael Khouri, Candy Pain, Miss Barbie-Q, Lizzy Cooperman, Atsuko Okatsuka, Penis, Karen Tongson, Peter Kim, Sandy Smiles, CHRISTEENE, MINIVAN, and La Pregunta.
In an interview with Ed Patuto of The Board, regarding her video, I Hate This Place, she links her style with the need to make light of past trauma as a sort of coping mechanism, “I subscribe to the comedy is tragedy plus time adage.
When I’m able to process things and communicate them after the fact, they come out funny.” [17] In the same interview, while Cameron says how her performance video is inspired by Mike Kelley's "Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #10, 21, 24 (Gym Interior)-in how they both deal with comedy and childhood drama.
[17] In another interview, she named the performers Carmelita Tropicana, Anne Lobst and Lucy Sexton from DANCENOISE, Martha Wilson, and Franklin Furnace among the individuals who helped further develop her style.
[4] In an interview, Svetlana Kitto labeled Cameron as part of a new iteration of queer punk performance art, scene descended from the Pyramid Club.
[4] In 2019, she had the potential FX TV series, Garbage Castle, in the works which starred her persona, Dynasty Handbag in a setting where they lived in a single room apartment on top of a pile of trash [8] However, the project was put on hold due to the pandemic as quoted by Cameron in an interview, “They ordered four episodes.