Collectif EA



"Julius EVOLA : Le Chemin du Cinabre"

Audio-visual work
(music, texts and slides)

On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the Italian traditionalist metaphysician, SYNERGIES EUROPÉENNES Switzerland, in collaboration with L’AGE D’HOMME, DELPHICA Editions, Geneva, Switzerland, and Librairie de LA CATHÉDRALE, Amnéville, France, have organised in Geneva the14^th of November 1998 a congress titled :

"Julius EVOLA 1898-1998 : Éveil, destin
et expériences de terres spirituelles"

Artistic event :

"L’âme a rejoint l’étoile et légué sa vengeance
aux témoins de l’Idée - et de la Vérité,
une et indivisible en sa témérité.
Il ne nous reste plus que toi, pâle Espérance !

Armez-vous de mémoire, ô vous, persécutés
de la Bête ! Armez-vous de pure impatience,
races de l’Esprit saint ! L’âme, outre le silence
de sondernier mépris, contemple l’unité."
(Pierre Pascal, in, "Julius Evola, le visionnaire foudroyé").

"The soul has rejoined the star and bequeathed its revenge
to witnesses of the Idea - and the Truth,
one and indivisible in its temerity.
It does not remain us but you, pale Hope !

Arm with memory, ô you, persecuted
by the Beast ! Arm with pure impatience,
races of the holy Spirit ! The soul, besides the silence
of his last contempt, contemplates the unity."
(Pierre Pascal, in, Julius Evola, le visionnaire foudroyé",
english translation by Collectif EA).

In the framework of this conference, Collectif EA has presented an audio-visual work titled "Julius EVOLA : Le Chemin du Cinabre" (music, texts and slides). This work, based upon Evola’s spiritual autobiography, retraces in ten parts some of the main axes of Evola’s course (- Introduction, - Art Abstrait, - Idéalisme Magique, - Yoga de la Puissance, - Ur & Krur, - Révolte contre le Monde Moderne, - La Doctrine de l’Éveil, - Seconde Guerre Mondiale, - Métaphysique du Sexe, - Chevaucher le Tigre, - Épitaphe). Each part is then followed by a text making the assessment about the previously approached period. The aim of this realisation is not only of paying homage to an exceptional personality, what would be doubtful towards an author who were a follower of "the active impersonality", but essentially by a artistic means aims at being an introduction to the various teachings whose Evola was the interpreter.
The musical aspect will go from neo-classical to bruitism (inspired by the sounds described by the futurist Luigi Russollo in 1913 in his "Manifeste de l’art des bruits"), from traditional music’s (India and Tibet) to "tamah-svarah". With regard to the texts, abstracts from various works of Evola, Pierre Pascal, as well as one of Evola’s poems, "Paysage dada" will be used. Finally, the visual aspect will notably draw on the paintings of Evola, Nicolas Roerich, and others artists, on the Hindu and Buddhist iconography, and in various mountings with a symbolic aim.

Collectif EA

"Dans les cales des timbales sourdes bruissent, et Ea est
lui aussi un cercle, et vous ne le voyez pas, je le sais bien."
(Julius Evola, La parole obscure du paysage intérieur, poème à 4 voix)"

"In holds deaf kettledrums rustle, and Ea is
also a circle, and you do not see it, I know it well."
(Julius Evola, La parole obscure du paysage intérieur, poème à 4 voix,
english translation by Collectif EA)

Collectif EA consists in the reunion of persons coming from various artistic horizons (music, bruitism, photograph...), born in 1998 in order to pay homage to the traditionalist Julius Evola on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Wishing to surpass the definition of art as a "simple individual expression" or "social fact", Collectif EA would like to renew with the ancient principle that considers art as a vehicle of sacred teachings.
But when the new cathedrals hardly distinguish from industrial sites and super-markets, when even sacred art no longer corresponds to canons but wants to be in fashion, it seems that a partial reply to the challenge of the modernity is found in one of the books of Evola, Riding The Tiger. It recommends in the context of a dissolution period to use "the same forces that have behaved to the perdition" in order to an inner liberation. Among the means capable of sustaining stands the music, where appears from different styles an outcrop to the primary.
Combined to the Hindu theory of rasa, that postulates the possibility of aesthetic experiences including as well the "Wonderful" than the "Horrible", this process has ended to the creation of an audio-visual work, using as a framework Le Chemin du Cinabre, the spiritual autobiography of Evola. Ten "musical scenes", interrupted with citations extracted from this book, as well as slides will evoke the "atmosphere" of some of chief periods and events of his course, while making reference to various traditional doctrines.
Above all else, this realisation would aim to be a modest attempt of "(...) transmitting to a few of us the sensation of truth - sensation that perhaps will be also the begining of some crisis of liberation" (Julius Evola, Revolt against the modern world).