Caltranzit a collaboration between artists living in Tijuana
and San Diego, used a 1975 red Malibu Chevy as the mobile site for
performance-interventions in the border region. As a multi-media
sculpture, the car evolved conceptually and aesthetically as it
displayed the cumulative evidence of our activities within our
communities. Among other transformations, the car became a free,
bilingual taxi “de ruta”, a private love taxi, a distributor of
poemales, a contraband transporter of concealed books, a mini theater
on wheels, and a multi-media installation. The car was a metaphor
for movement across the border region, as it was continually displaced,
relocated, altered, and embellished by those who shared it.
Caltranzit was funded by a UCIRA grant.
Caltranzit was founded and curated by: Jenny Donovan, Alex Dragulescu, Christine Foerster and Mark Oliver. Collaborators were: Amaranta Caballero Prado, Abril Castro, Mayra Luna, Kara Lynch, Omar Pimienta, Octavio Castellanos Rodríguez and Margarita Valencia Triana.