Dynasty Handbag, Titanic Depression - MOCA Geffen
West Coast Premiere
Friday, November 15th, 2024 | 7:30pm
Saturday, November 16th, 2024 | 6:30pm
Sunday, November 17th, 2024 | 4:00pm
$12 Adults
$10 MOCA Members

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Titanic Depression is a live performace starring Dynasty Handbag - the subversive and dystopian alter ego of artist Jibz Cameron (b. 1975, California) - that takes James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic and reimagines it as a hilariously bleak parable of human arrogance. Titanic Depression combines animation, a video backdrop by filmmaker Mariah Garnett, and soundscapes as a multimedia event. Dynasty Handbag's characteristic physical comedy and improvisation in the work addresses issues of class and gender inequality; our collective morality; and runaway, consumer-driven climate disaster. 

In Dynasty Handbag's world, the notorious iceberg melts in balmy weather before the Titanic ever reaches it, the vessel sinking anyway in a tour de force of nonsensical, collective doom. The result is a tragicomedy of humanity's own making that no amount of metal straws or fastidiously-sorted recycling will fiz. As the artist has noted, at a time of climate crisis on seemingly every front, "levity arises  out of the sheer pressure cooker of the era we are collectively experiencing."