Research Catalog

Title

Meriem Bennani - life on the caps / Meriem Bennani ; edited by Negar Azimi, Tiffany Malakooti.

Publication

Chicago : Bidoun : The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Azimi, Negar
• Malakooti, Tiffany
• Bennani, Meriem, 1988-
• University of Chicago. Renaissance Society, host institution, publisher

Description

213 pages : color illustrations; 32 cm

Summary

A catalog for an exhibition of the latest chapter in Miriem Bennani's CAPS film project. Meriem Bennani is a Moroccan artist who lives and works in New York. Life on the CAPS is the final chapter in her film trilogy of the same name. Set in a supernatural, dystopian future surrounding a fictional island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, it is rooted in Bennani's research and reflections on the histories of island societies, biotechnology, and vernacular music. Layering live-action footage and computer-generated animation, Bennani intuitively adapts editing techniques that evoke documentary film, science fiction, phone footage, music videos, and reality TV. Her one-person exhibition at the Renaissance Society marked the debut of this personal, electric yet melancholic consideration of what it is to live in a state of limbo, and this accompanying book captures the film through a combination of still images and selections from a transcript of the film. Enacting a variety of cunning shifts, Life on the CAPS moves fluidly from the imaginary to the geopolitical and ranges from the microscopic scale of DNA to the global eye of surveillance. At the same time, it engages with the power of individual experience as well as the power of collectivity while building on an emotive, formal experimentation that refutes boundaries. This volume includes transcripts of conversations between Meriem Bennani and Omar Berrada, Fatima Al Quadiri and Bidoun, Amal Benzekri, and Aziz Bouyabrine.--University of Chicago Press.

Alternative Title

Life on the caps

Subject

• Bennani, Meriem, 1988- > Exhibitions
• Film installations (Art) > Exhibitions
• Film installations (Art)

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQG 23-784

ISBN

• 9780941548878
• 0941548872

OCLC

1346317320

Title

Meriem Bennani - life on the caps / Meriem Bennani ; edited by Negar Azimi, Tiffany Malakooti.

Publisher

Chicago : Bidoun : The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, [2023]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Azimi, Negar, editor.

Malakooti, Tiffany, editor.

Bennani, Meriem, 1988- Works. Selections.

University of Chicago. Renaissance Society, host institution, publisher.

Research Call Number

JQG 23-784