Essays by: Emily LaBarge and Elvia Wilk and transcripts of conversations between Meriem Bennani and: Omar Berrada; Fatima Al Quadiri, Negar Azimi, and Tiffany Malakooti; Amal Benzekri; and Aziz Bouyabrine
Edited by: Negar Azimi and Tiffany Malakooti
Co-published by: Bidoun and The Renaissance Society
Designed by Tiffany Malakooti
Life on the CAPS is a monograph devoted to the artist Meriem Bennani’s film trilogy of the same name. In the bonkers world of the CAPS, air travel has been made obsolete by teleportation, enabling instantaneous passage across borders and oceans. On a fictive island in the middle of the Atlantic, a makeshift detention camp for intercepted migrants has developed into a bustling yet precarious megalopolis, with codes, rituals, and a burgeoning resistance movement of its own. Life on the CAPS offers a panoramic view of Bennani’s wildly inventive worldbuilding, with special consideration of her excursions into science fiction, biotechnology, and vernacular music, and beyond.
