Carlos León-Xjiménez cleonxjimenez@gmail.com http://carlosleonxjimenez.tk +49 (0) 176 27247471 (mobile Germany) +49 (0) 30 21809192 (homezone Berlin) +51 954 710 731 (mobile Peru) carlosleonx (skype)

On Landscape / Topografía urbana de los techos en el Centro Histórico de Lima (investigación en proceso)

Lima, 2011. Digital photography “The rooftops are a kind of parallel city - hidden, but also public. It is a territory that suggests freedom, full of unregulated possibilities within an already existing architectural and civic infrastructure. It is also a space of struggle and survival. In opposite and yet complementary ways, the streets and rooftops of Lima tell the story of the city.” (Carlos León-Xjiménez: The Rooftops of Lima: case study of an urban desert) http://static.londonconsortium.com/issue04/xjimenez_rooftops.html

The Flash-Mob Files

3 hours in 1 second February 5th, 2010 Basso. Berlin, Germany Under the premise of "curating Youtube" after a web-interface developed by the curator, the project "The Flash Mob files" were shown in the group exhibition 3 Hours in 1 Second or “What can I say with just one playlist? -a multi channel video installation" curated by Sakrowski. Flash mobs are a way people get together to interrupt everyday routines through apparent non-sense and unseemingly pointless acts and behaviors, just for brief minutes, disappearing afterwards. Due the ephemeral character of flash mobs, the piece is though as an “archive” of these unpredictable and random situations done by people masses all over the world. http://grid.curatingyoutube.net/show/index.html

Precarious Institute for Economical Survival Strategies

Urban intervention, installation, design for performance Variable dimensions Cardboard boxes, plastic, photocopies, wood. Berlin, Germany (Prenzlauer Promenade/Wisbyer Strasse, November 2006) (left views) Lima, Peru (ICPNA San Miguel gallery, August 2009) (right view) Starting as an urban intervention, this project turns into a performative installation with a cardboard-box on-the-street- office, where visitors could write down alternative job they can offer in a pin-wall, with personal contact information (phone, cellular and/or email address) http://sites.google.com/site/cleonxjimenez/works/precarious-institute-for-economical-survival-strategies

Stattfinden – taking place

Installation Ilmpark, Weimar, Germany Materials: construction fence, traffic board Dimensions: 150 x 380 x 380 cm June-July 2009 STATTFINDEN (taking place) was a process-based experience intervention with two components: a physical installation aside to the fake ruin at the Park of the Ilm river, and a round-table meeting with local artist and cultural producers. Dealing with a touristic city, the population of Weimar lives the consequences of 10 years after being European Cultural Capital in 1999. The UNESCO protected park is untouchable. In this context what kind of agenda can drive the independent initiatives focused in contemporary art and culture? A dialogue and meeting place foster new ideas and scenarios to deal with the tradition and established city brand. http://sites.google.com/site/cleonxjimenez/works/stattfinden

male mammal foreplay behavior: a study case

01’57” video Weimar, 2008 Two males are filmed under what can be consider scientific surveillance. The male-male foreplay game is researched in a fake documentary way, with text focused in pre-sexual games and the related behavior. http://vimeo.com/23864590

NSB (NeueSozialerBau) - New Social Construction

Installation Weimarhallenpark, Weimar, Germany Materials: camouflage net, steel pipe structure Dimensions: 300 x 300 x 300 cm June 2007 The project was designed to create a space for anonymous encounter in the Weimarhallenpark, oriented to people with military fetish tastes. Reclaiming spaces for the almost non-existent cruising in Weimar and advertising it through the community web Gayromeo, the installation was offered as meeting point (and cruising area). The project was result of a research on current links between Neo-Nazi values and gay male camaraderie in East Germany. The city of Weimar has a strong symbolism for Neo-Nazi groups because of Hitler´s radical architectural intervention in the city: the Gauforum (model of city administration under the Nazi ideology) and the Buchenwald concentration camp. For the Nazis, Weimar was appreciated not only as heart of the German classical culture by the legacy of Goethe and Schiller, but because a symbolism of their victory over the Weimar Republic. Even though there are no much openly declared neo-Nazi people in Weimar, the city is very appreciated in the region for open extreme-right political demonstrations through the NPD political party. http://cca-actions.org/actions/nsb-neuersozialerbau-new-social-construction

Prove a Gostosa – Taste the delicious

“Taste the delicious Cheese-Sausage-Tofu Bahia-Thüringia-China

Authentic Peruvian recipe”

Performance, Salvador do Bahia, Brazil October 28th, 2008 In the framework of the Corpocidade congress on urban aesthetics in Salvador, the performance was done in the very crowd area of Rio Vermelho where people join to drink beer and eat popular food during the nights close to the beach in the heat nights of Salvador. The performance was an intervention, offering like a food street ambulant vendor popular food, but twisting the popular local grilled cheese-skewers into a transnational one with asian tofu and german sausages with the local brazilian food. An unexpected mix that surprised the local people, who taste the unconventional mix. http://corpocidade.blogspot.com/2008/10/urbanda-2-concept.html

Geschenkpapier (Berlin 1.0) (wrapping paper)

(detail)

Photography dimensions: 29.7 x 42 cm graphic project for the ART MOTIV magazine. (Issue 3, Lima 2008) 240 photos of 4 Berlin art fairs running simultaneously in 2007 (Art Forum, Berliner Liste, and Preview Berlin among them). Here the graphic proposal offer through copy left, unlimited reproduction as a wrapping paper.

NLK (Neue Leipziger Küche) – New cuisine of Leipzig

Happening, cooking collective performances, social software Leipzig, Germany (different locations) Project done with Kristina Draskovic and Zoe Kreye October 2008 – February 2009 Collective project focused on the multicultural life in the city of Leipzig, highlighting the current identities in the city through cooking events. People were invited to take the everyday food they prepare at home, according with their cultural and ethnic backgrounds. In Leipzig there is a big Middle East immigration, as well as Russians and Vietnamese groups. Other invited people could remix the food with other ingredients and species, looking for new dishes or mixes that can illustrate possible new dishes, as a portrait of the current multicultural mixes in today Leipzig. There the participants were interviewed and invited to take part in a diagram on citizen’s perceptions on the city life, pointing out current social challenges. http://sites.google.com/site/cleonxjimenez/works/nlk-neue-leipziger-kueche---new-cuisine-of-leipzig

Zafarrancho

Happening, collaborative cooking event Under the St. Martin Bridge, Barranco district, Lima (Peru) December 13th and 14th, 2003 at the Barranco Contemporary Art Festival Participatory cooking process, inviting the passer-byes to cook and taste for free a traditional sweet dessert “Ranfañote” (original by the african slaves in the peruvian colonial times, XVI to XIX centuries), tradition that in the last decades is getting forgotten. This temporary ocupation of the street set big carpets, generating a meeting place where unknown passer-by interact with the group, sitting and chatting with each other. The cooking process was offer as an interchange, either the visitors take bread to cook, or helped cutting or removing the pot, in order to eat. Unexpected visitors stop their way to take part of the experience. http://sites.google.com/site/cleonxjimenez/works/zafarrancho