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Posted On: October 7th 2025, 08:47 pm
On September 12th, as part of their project Necromantic Kitchen, artistic duo Annike Flo + Lexie Owen hosted a graveyard wander with soil scientist Inghild Økland and other guests.
This interdisciplinary wander through Gamle Aker Kirkegård was part of the group exhibition Hanging Garden at Tenthaus, curated by Slekke.
Flo + Owen’s joint artistic practice is focused on the meeting points between material death cultures, biological processes of decomposition, and magic. They seek to reclaim the notion of “Necromancy,” understanding it historically as a pejorative descriptor used to vilify pre/non-christian burial and grieving practices. In this notion, the artists find the possibility to develop grieving practices that account the ongoingness of death – both in grief and grieving, and in the recirculation of the energetic potential of our bodies into soil.
During the graveyard wandering the artists shared their research, bringing along interdisciplinary viewpoints of the transformative magic of soil, and the handling of our dead from Inghild Økland, Søren Erik Jakobsen and Kristin Lian.
This event was produced in collaboration between Oslo Kommune Gravplassetaten and Tenthaus Gallery, with support from Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond. This graveyard wander was part of Oslo kulturnatt.
Photos by @drewjbeckett_ and the artists.
This interdisciplinary wander through Gamle Aker Kirkegård was part of the group exhibition Hanging Garden at Tenthaus, curated by Slekke.
Flo + Owen’s joint artistic practice is focused on the meeting points between material death cultures, biological processes of decomposition, and magic. They seek to reclaim the notion of “Necromancy,” understanding it historically as a pejorative descriptor used to vilify pre/non-christian burial and grieving practices. In this notion, the artists find the possibility to develop grieving practices that account the ongoingness of death – both in grief and grieving, and in the recirculation of the energetic potential of our bodies into soil.
During the graveyard wandering the artists shared their research, bringing along interdisciplinary viewpoints of the transformative magic of soil, and the handling of our dead from Inghild Økland, Søren Erik Jakobsen and Kristin Lian.
This event was produced in collaboration between Oslo Kommune Gravplassetaten and Tenthaus Gallery, with support from Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond. This graveyard wander was part of Oslo kulturnatt.
Photos by @drewjbeckett_ and the artists.
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