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Carpark (1994) - Mark Tribe

Carpark (1994) - Mark Tribe

By Ceci Moss on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 11:00 am.

Carpark from Mark Tribe on Vimeo.

Cars are a defining feature of the landscape and social space of Southern California. Especially in San Diego, where freeways weave like dangerous ribbons through a terrain of strip malls and tract housing, driving is an almost inescapable part of daily life...

On August 31, 1994 from 6am to noon, a team of 50 professional and volunteer parking attendants directed the arriving cars to predetermined lots according to car color. Each of the fourteen lots was filled with cars of a different color: dark blue, blue, light metallic blue, silver & gray, black, beige, brown, metallic raspberry, yellow, electric blue, white, aqua, green and red.

-- EXCERPT FROM THE ARTIST'S STATEMENT

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2 Comments

Comment by Mark Tribe
October 28, 2009 4:38 pm
I swear I had nothing to do with this.
 
Comment by Maxwell Williams
November 14, 2009 11:54 am
This is so beautiful.
 

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