MINUS DELTA T

MINUS DELTA T, is a group of artistic ethnology born in 1978 on an idea of some members of FRIGO:

• MIKE HENTZ
• KAREL DUDESEK
• BERNT MULLER
• GERARD COUTY
• WOLFGANG HOFFMANN

For the beauty of the gesture and the goal to contribute to the world communication, MINUS DELTA T, set up since 1980 the BANGKOK project , project of cultural exchanges consisting to transport a stone of 5 tons and half, left the careers of South WElls in England (origin of the site of Stonehenge) as far as Asia.

The stone was conveyed through Europe on a truck arranged in multi-media cell;  without value at the beginning, it will acquire throughout way a MEDIA MYSTIC value  and will become a catalyst symbol  through  the media, the rumours, the famous personalities (Dalai Lama, Bruno Kreiski, Jean Paul II, etc...) which will agree to come into contact with it.  In Rome, in May 1982, it will be even blessed by the Pope.
To finance such an adventure, the members of MINUS DELTA Thad had the idea to print and to sell 19 967 actions, quantifies corresponding to the number of kilometers which the stone was traveliing to the HIMALAYAS.  As the sale of the actions was not enough, they succeeded in finding sponsors (MILDE SORTE, MIELE, CONTINENTAL, OLIVETTI, BIC, SHARP, PERSIL, MUESLI... ).  These assistances enabled them to live in quasi autarky all along the trip.  Thus the stone made its way through Europe then crossed Turkey, Syria, Iran, Pakistan to arrive finally at New Dehli in 1983.

The conclusion of this first phase was the organization of the BANGKOK Festival in June 1983, festival of Modern art to Museum BYRASHI joining together for 2 months a score of European artists.  This festival has represented the continuation of the project throughout the world.

From this adventure was born the PHILOSOPHICAL DATA BANK, banks of philosophical data:  MINUS DELTA T installed in the Himalayas, to 3 000 m of altitude a trunk embedded in the rock, containing a computer that the international visitors can record theirs visions of the world and consult that for the others.  Keys are distributed to the interessed people:  scientists, artists, philosophers.  

The adventure is not finished besides:  if the members of MINUS DELTA T obtain their visa for China, they will carry the stone to Peking (it currently stays in the GANGE).

CULTURAL EXCHANGE

For MINUS DELTA T, the BANGKOK PROJECT represents the first global work of art of the Eighties.  The voyage consisted in specifying a cultural exchange and finding new forms with the art, the communication, the economy.  This research their made it possible to confront the Western cultural system with the systems of the crossed countries, to create new forms of expressions, new fashions of exchanges and new philosophical concepts.

The members of MINUS DELTA T develops Van Gogh TV and Piazza virtuale  within the framework of   PONTON EUROPEAN MEDIA ART LAB.