The Burial of the Seven-Sin Heritage or Where Evrum Is Born

On 27 July 1996, a happening took place at the cemetery in Podhradí nad Dyjí, named The Burial of the Seven-Sin Heritage or Where Evrum Is Born. As a part of the happening, the artist presented his super notion of Evrum. To this neologism and event, Petr Jurák dedicated his article He Listened to the Happening in the Grave (Happeningu naslouchal v hrobě, Rovnost, 29 July 1996, p. 9): "The idea of a happening taking place at the cemetery can be shocking for many, yet the master’s deeply rooted respect for reverence was a guarantee on its own of a decent course of the ceremony.
The seven-sin heritage of old Europe came to see off more than two thousand people on its last journey and Lubo Kristek’s supporters were already gathering at his residence after dark. On the altar in front of the house, thousands of candles lit up and the Death on a white horse opened a dreamy scenery where the earthly pleasures of the dismayed viewers blend with the surrealist vision of the artist. After steep climbing up a hill, the funeral march spread in the auditorium around the cemetery. On its free surface, live hallucination of the midnight scenery was being projected.
The mysterious four-metre high beings were walking on stilts under the shade of the trees. After a while, a hearse arrived and the coffin disappeared in a huge grave with the remains of the material self-indulgence of this world, with all the seven-sin heritage of old Europe, and, with the sound of suggestive music of a symphonic orchestra.
The ceremony was accompanied by the chorale of the nuns. Little by little, the flung bodies of ghosts from the underworld, after performing tiny movements, were coming to live in a chilling and impressive ballet scenery.
The moment of rebirth was approaching. According to the master’s thoughts, it is only on a purified basis that a new idea and spiritual quality can be born. The art symbolism of the movement creations of the central ballet couple culminated to an emotional climax, which will provide a base for a new, clean fruit.
The petrified viewers froze with another surprise: in the circle of ballet dancers, a baby overflowing with life was born out of a pregnant mother in the moonlight and, from the grave hole, Lubo Kristek himself unexpectedly appeared on the scene. In the centre of the cemetery on a white canvas, he created a picture of a tree giving fruit, under which he lifted the baby up and, as a symbol of his idea, he ceremonially named it Evrum.
Kristek’s message resides in his view of a new Europe that cannot be created through consumption and bargains; only by uniting thoughts, spirituality of nations and races can a truly new, pure and stable quality emerge. The word Evrum formed by Kristek is a name for a feminine child and at the same time, a universal super notion for the word ‘art’ in all languages."