random quoted dynasty handbag:
"Jibz: I know exactly what I'm trying to say, but I don't care if people say, "It was hilarious," and that's all they get out of it. It's a feminist message. I know a lot of women in my mom's generation that had a lot going on and got stuck in weird social structures that killed their dreams. To not do that, you have to be a lesbian or an innovative bitch that no one gets along with."
"Lets see, well as a comparison I guess it is similar in that there are characters I am interacting with that are not physically present. That is usually the case with Dynasty Handbag, she is only experiencing things in her head, from her point of view, which is actually exactly like how it is in reality…so there! With VERTititGO the other characters were just audio tracks, or more accurately I, the protagonist, was a voice and then “I” the performer got to play all the characters–in BSMFs I also played all the other cast members, but this time they are interacting all at the same time with each other via video projections, whilst me, the performer is swimming in the middle of it all. I don’t know how that is going to feel. Insane probably. Because I will be performing live off of my own performances…and if they are annoying or problematic it will be hard to stay on point. It will also just be emotionally whacked because all the characters are sort of heightened versions of family members, but they are also me – my identification with those people, my projection of them…as a projection. A video projection of my projection. That is the project. Tion."
Jibz: Well, yeah, people say that she’s pretty much all sub-consciousness. I would like to somehow access a part of my consciousness that isn’t filtered through what is going on right in front of me, in the world, or history, or my fear and anxiety—and I try to do that. But I don’t know that it’s really possible. But it is where I like to go. Because it’s the most interesting. And you can feel it too in your gut—whether it’s really true, or whether you’re creating something that’s meant to do something else besides tell the truth about something—it’s like nahhhh, I’m just doing that to tell a joke or whatever. She is less of a character and more of a vessel.
Ivy: Did you ever study clowning? Because clowning, in the sort of Shakespearean sense, has that idea that clowns are pre-sexual, existing before sexuality. Pure. Not acting like children, exactly, but existing in a time before sexuality; innocent.
Jibz: Yes! And also with clowning, there’s not a whole lot of ulterior motives. You just wanna get what you wanna get, which is what everything is about. Especially in theater—how are they gonna get what they want? That’s the story. And if there is sexuality, it’s like, really exaggerated. And then the joke becomes about how ridiculous it looks trying to be sexual.
JC: It's a mystery of sorts, but it's more about the mystery of looking for things. It's also about 'where did all thewomen go?' The women of my mother's generation. Where did their dreams go? A lot of them went crazy. Like they got married and never followed through with whattheir spirit wanted. However,also, the show is really ridiculous. It's not some heavy meditation on women. There are two parallel stories: looking for things, and how do we look for things; and the reality of the searching for something, thinking that you're going to fix things, almost like violently pursuing our answers.