Fear is Somehow Our For Whom? For What? + Proximity to Everything Far Away

Fear is Somehow Our For Whom? For What? + Proximity to Everything Far Away is a map by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri that traces the geographic and intellectual cartography of their project Camp Campaign. It is published on the reverse side of Art in General’s Winter INSIDE newsletter, and is distributed for free beginning in January 2007. To make this map, Ayreen and Rene took their original plan—a pristine, digital drawing that sketched the travel route that the artists would follow—and rendered their actual journey they made through the USA during the summer. But this time, the artists included a more meticulous map legend, list of relevant terms, and an index route which is a series of notations. Numbered, as to refer to a loose chronology and to operate as footnotes to the sites they visited, these notations begin in the style of travelogue but, almost immediately, move away into an intellectual journey.