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Posted On: July 17th 2026, 08:49 am
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Necromantic Kitchen full moon gathering at Losæter and Gamlebyen cemetery!
Beginning in Gamlebyen cemetery, we walked with wild plant expert Kia Vulgaris, senior consultant at Gravplassetaten Snorre Utengen, and fagleder at Oslokompost Thomas Gabler, learning about how to care for the decay of those who have passed, how Oslo's compost systems circulate through the city (and back to its graveyards), and meeting some of the edible herbs growing among the graves.
From there we moved to Losæter for butter churning (and spanking), lefse baking, and the blending of herbs as offerings for our dead and for death itself, drawing on traditional Norwegian food culture as a way to practice regenerative necromancy.
Necromantic Kitchen forms part of our ongoing collaborative research project, Afterlives, which explores death through material culture, metabolism and decomposition. Rather than approaching death as an ending, the project asks how we might understand it as a generative force that continually reshapes the living world.
Thank you to everyone who walked, baked, gathered and shared the evening with us!
🪦
The event was a collaboration between artist duo Lexie Owen and Annike Flo, Kunstprogrammet på Losæter, Norwegian BioArt Arena, NOBA , and Gravplassetaten. The event was supported by Oslo Kommune and Sparebankstiftelsen DNB
Beginning in Gamlebyen cemetery, we walked with wild plant expert Kia Vulgaris, senior consultant at Gravplassetaten Snorre Utengen, and fagleder at Oslokompost Thomas Gabler, learning about how to care for the decay of those who have passed, how Oslo's compost systems circulate through the city (and back to its graveyards), and meeting some of the edible herbs growing among the graves.
From there we moved to Losæter for butter churning (and spanking), lefse baking, and the blending of herbs as offerings for our dead and for death itself, drawing on traditional Norwegian food culture as a way to practice regenerative necromancy.
Necromantic Kitchen forms part of our ongoing collaborative research project, Afterlives, which explores death through material culture, metabolism and decomposition. Rather than approaching death as an ending, the project asks how we might understand it as a generative force that continually reshapes the living world.
Thank you to everyone who walked, baked, gathered and shared the evening with us!
🪦
The event was a collaboration between artist duo Lexie Owen and Annike Flo, Kunstprogrammet på Losæter, Norwegian BioArt Arena, NOBA , and Gravplassetaten. The event was supported by Oslo Kommune and Sparebankstiftelsen DNB
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