Connecting the soil of the graveyard with the soil of the urban farm, thinking regenerative necromancy through digestive metabolisms, come and celebrate this solstice strawberry moon with artist duo Annike Flo + Lexie Owen. For this Full Moon Gathering Flo + Owen will bring their ongoing creative research project Necromantic Kitchen to Losæter with an evening of participatory events in two parts. You are welcome to join for either or both. Dress according to the weather.
Date: Tuesday 30th of June
Time: 5pm to 9pm
Location: Gamlebyen gravlund and Losæter (Oslo)
PART ONE: Graveyard Walk at Gamlebyen gravlund
Meet at the graveyard at 5pm at the Oslogate/Ekebergveien entrance. Gravplassetaten will join us.
The first half of the evening unfolds at Gamlebyen gravlund with a gravplass vandring focusing on regeneration and the metabolic processes of the graveyard. Participants and invited guests will explore the site together, and will arrive at Losæter in time for the second half of the event.
PART TWO: offerings for the dead
Meet at Losæter at 19:00
The second half of the evening unfolds at the urban farm, where Flo + Owen will facilitate the opportunity to participate in an offering to the dead, reengaging with traditional Norwegian food craft, including lefse, butter making, and herbal tea blending. If participants have a particular deceased person they would like to make a tea offering for they are encouraged to bring an element they relate to that person to add to their own tea blend.
Through this evening at Losæter the duo will continue their ongoing practice exploring what it means to enter into dialogue with death as a creative and transformative force. The evening will be concluded with a closing ritual performed by the artists.
ABOUT NECROMANTIC KITCHEN
As part of an ongoing body of research, afterlives, Necromantic Kitchen engages with necromancy in a creative and expanded way, reading the term openly as a re-activation or re-animation of what has been considered dead and applying it to different knowledges, cultural phenomena, relations and materials. In this work we explore material cultures and biological processes related to death and dying, linking practices of mourning and grieving to processes of metabolism, both in terms of human digestion and the action of decomposition, which turns organic matter into soil.
Through engaging with necromancy in an non-extractive way the project asks how can we develop an understanding of death not as an ending, but rather as the beginning of a transformative, generative and creative process.
Through engaging with necromancy in an non-extractive way the project asks how can we develop an understanding of death not as an ending, but rather as the beginning of a transformative, generative and creative process.
Since initiating this project in late 2024, we have developed exhibitions, participatory workshops, and an ongoing series of speculative gravplass vandringer in collaboration with Oslo Gravplassetaten. In the future afterlives can be found doing research in Autumn 2026 on Svalbard in collaboration with ARTICA Svalbard/OCA and as part of the Anthropogenic Soils exhibition in Spring 2027 at NOBA in As.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Annike Flo’s practice is interdisciplinary, merging a focus on living beings and materials with video, photography and writing. Drawing from scenography, science, and occult perspectives, Flo explores how humans co-manipulate matter, time, and space with other entities, living or otherwise. Emerging through fieldwork, site-specific responses, speculation, and interdisciplinary collaboration her work dwell in the encounters between species, systems, and the unseen.
Lexie Owen is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores notions of the collective, structures of support and networks of care. Using artistic, curatorial and textual methods her projects seek to create space for intimacies in unexpected ways, investigate the material conditions that surround collective acts, and find unconventional expressions of agency within the gestures and social forms that make up everyday life.
