ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how artists Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon use cartographical processes in their work for the purposes of plotting an escape route from the increasingly "mapped out" terms of contemporary society and its various systems of capture and control. Bunting and Brandon plot their means of escape from the more repressive aspects of neoliberal sovereignty by devising tactics for occupying, however momentarily, a state of voluntary or elective exile. For Bunting and Brandon, the navigation of space whether physical or virtual is inherently bound up with the navigation of subjectivity and questions of social identity. The maps produced as part of the BorderXing project attest to a journey already undertaken, simultaneously serving as provocation and instruction for any prospective traveller wanting to cross national borders. The social and spatial landscapes of neoliberalism are encountered as an indefinable web whose logic is unstable and changeable but whose grasp is maintained as an ever-present constant.
