Jochen LEMPERT

Nationality: German
also belongs to the group: SCHMELZDAHIN

A biologist by training, Jochen Lempert (born in 1958) worked during the 1980s at Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn while collaborating at the same time with Jochen Müller and Jürgen Reble in the schmelzdahin group (dissolved), active until 1990, with whom he produced a set of experimental films in super-8 based on the effects of bacteriological decomposition and chemical alterations of films.

Since then, Jochen Lempert has continued his research on the living and the coexistence of life forms through photographic practice. This cross-influence between science and art makes him a unique figure on the contemporary art scene.

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Schmelzdahin (melt away) is a film group which worked in Bonn between 1979 and 1989. Members: Jochen Lempert, Jochen Müller, Jürgen Reble. Schmelzdahin jointly carry out research in the fields of shooting, montage and material processing. As a part of this, lengthy studies relating to the effects that bacterialogical decomposition, disintegration, and chemical processes have upon film emulsion were carried out. Within a period of ten years, some 20 short films are made and published world-wide carrying the Schmelzdahin name, without any personal reference being made to the artists. The selection programme „Ein harter Falter“ was on tour from 1988-89, together with the film performance „Wir lagern uns ums Feuer“. Some 30 screenings take place in West Germany, Switzerland, the USA, and Canada. Break up of Schmelzdahin in 1989.

-http://www.schmelzdahin.de/


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