Dynasty Handbag: Mixed Nuts

Last Art School, a project by Lindsey White is thrilled to present a performance by Dynasty Handbag as part of the exhibition programming series taking place within the gallery’s Chat & Chew lounge space.

Dynasty Handbag presents an evening of disreputable performance pieces, disappointing songs, and accurate observational entertainment, designed especially for the Hunter College fiefdom. RJ the Magician will open the evening with an incredible set of illusions.

Jibz Bio

Jibz Cameron is a performance and video artist living in Los Angeles, performing multimedia work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag. Over the last 15 years, Cameron has combined tragedy and comedy, at such institutions as MOCA, PS1, Joe’s Pub, The Kitchen, REDCAT, The Broad Museum, The Hammer Museum, and the New Museum, among others. The New York Times has heralded her as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and New York Magazine has called her “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative.”

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. She released her first comedy record, The Bored Identity, on Wacky Wacko records in November 2023. Her latest evening-length performance Titanic Depression was commissioned by Pioneer Works curator David Everitt Howe.

Cameron has written and produced seven evening-length performance pieces and countless short works that have been performed in clubs and venues internationally. She also has produced multiple video works and two albums of original music. Cameron also produces and hosts Weirdo Night!, a monthly experimental comedy and performance event in Los Angeles. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute and has taught as a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She has presented workshops and curated events at institutions including University of Pennsylvania, SFMOMA, The Jewish Museum (New York), Wendy’s Subway (New York), The Broad Museum (Los Angeles), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), MOCA (Los Angeles), and The Lab (San Francisco).

RJ Bio

Rajon Lynch AKA RJ THE Magician, is a 25 year old comedy magician from Wisconsin [Home of Harry Houdini]. RJ moved to New York from Wisconsin and was appointed the director of the Houdini Museum of NYC in 2019. He has been featured by the NY Times, Complex, Daily Mail, TED, Smithsonian and most recently in the 2021 History Channel series "History's Greatest Mysteries: The Houdini Diaries" starring alongside magicians Penn & Teller, and actor Lawrence Fishbourne.

RJ currently lives in New York where he performs at nightclubs, comedy shows and colleges across the country. 

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