a site-specific art installation by Nina Katchadourian, Steven Matheson and Mark Tribe, where thousands of cars were parked, by color, for half a day, at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California for inSite ’94, a binational art exhibition.
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.
An exhibition at the school several months after the event featured artifacts and documentation from the car sorting day.