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.
11 Facts About Jibz Cameron
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Jibra'ila "Jibz" Cameron was born in 1975 in Annapolis in northern California.
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Jibz Cameron later did an internship with Wooster Group for a bit.
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Jibz Cameron has taught at universities as a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts and an adjunct professor at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
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The alter ego Jibz Cameron created to perform on stage, Dynasty Handbag, started as a music project.
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Jibz Cameron gave a summery about the persona in a Artsy interview:.
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Jibz Cameron was highly dressed-up, and a failure at womanhood.
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Jibz Cameron openly discusses negative emotions but does so in a humorous way through exaggeration and expressive facial expressions.
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Jibz Cameron's songs relate to other existing works in media.
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Jibz Cameron first became known as a performance artist in San Francisco, and then in New York, before settling down in LA.
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Jibz Cameron moved to New York in 2004 and primarily hung out in queer communities which further influenced her style.