Going to Camp: A Meditation About AIDS, Quarantine, Exile and Personal Loss

“The making of this book started with a conversation about what some of us would take to camp if we had to go…” Dedicated to those we have lost, with proceeds going to the GMHA (formerly the Gay Men’s Health Crisis), within the introduction of Going To Camp, John Neely writes, “All of us gathered here have experienced the loss of life from AIDS. We worry about our own lives, about the possibility of camps and death, but each of us has become a stronger person because of those who are gone. We will miss our friends/their counsel and their examples.” Artist Lyman Persma, one of the only cis-male artist book residents in WSW’s history, worked with twenty contributors living with HIV who provided poetry, fiction, and images for this reflective compilation. The book is structured like an accordion book, unfolding into a cross shape. The container is closed with a clay embossed seal.

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Holdings

Rochester Institute of Technology, Newark Public Library, Yale University, University of Delaware, University of Colorado (Boulder), Virginia Commonwealth University, Art Gallery of Ontario, University of California (Santa Barbara), Harvard University, Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego), Brown University, Atlanta College of Art, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), University of Georgia, University of Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Cleveland Institute of Art, University of North Carolina (Greensboro), Stanford University, University of Utah, Vassar College Library, University of Connecticut (Storrs), University of Colorado Library, Duke University, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Bucknell University Bertrand Library, Indiana University, University of Michigan, Library of Congress, Ohio University

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Metadata

Title:

Going to Camp: A Meditation About AIDS, Quarantine, Exile and Personal Loss

Other Contributors:

David Acker, Barry Adkins, Vine Barnes, J. Catherine Bebout, Philip Blackwell, Ron & Linda Brown, Ted Castle, Peggy Feerick, Paul Garland, Dieter Hall, Joanne Hund, Kimble Mead, Cyrilla Mozenter, John Neely, Joel Redon, Bill Rice, Albert Robbins, Veronica Saddler, Glenn Smith

Date of publication:

1987

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

Other publishing info:

Production contributions: St. Mark's Graphics, Joe Grieco, Diane Ghisone Design

Subjects:

AIDS (virus), LGBTQI+

Dimensions:

53 x 173 cm. folded to 21 x 23 cm.

Number in edition:

65

Paging:

2 folded strips, intersected ([11] leaves) + [13] p. pamphlet

Printing method:

Silkscreen, color photocopy, photography, rubber stamp

Binding:

Paper envelope folder banded with embossed clay medallion tied to elastic string

Structure:

Accordion Fold Book

Funding source:

New York State Council on the Arts, Women's Studio Workshop

Writer:

Lyman Piersma

Printer:

Lyman Piersma

Binder:

Lyman Piersma

Other notes:

Additional support Kathleen Hayeck, Joe Pletto, Stanley Salzman, Sidney Shelov