A new partnership to deliver a UK–Norway exchange programme
September 2026
Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery has launched a new partnership to deliver a UK–Norway exchange programme connecting artists, curators and prison-based art initiatives.
Joining with Agder Kunstakademi, an art school that ran in Agder Prison between 2021 – 2023, the programme explores the role of art school pedagogy within prison systems through exhibitions, residencies, workshops and public events.
Edmund Clark will contribute through visiting Agder Prison, documenting and researching, drawing on his longstanding exploration of state power and systems of control.
The initiative is supported by KORO – Public Art Norway, the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London.
Impact Kyiv: War/Conflict Photography Forum
14 – 18 October 2026
Edmund has been invited to speak at the forthcoming Impact Kyiv Forum, organised by The Ukrainian House of Photography.
The International Forum will be organized for the first time and aims to bring the following topics to the fore: the preservation of photographic archives during wartime and the processes involved in building a new wartime archive; the evolution of visual language to maintain focus on a protracted war; the impact of new technologies on visual narratives; and ethical considerations in the coverage of war and conflict.
For more information, visit the website here.
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black – Cosmopolemos
October 2026
Loose Joints will publish Cosmopolemos.
“Clark & Black build an oblique encyclopaedia of American military power, marshalling public defence data and the Pentagon’s own photography into an object whose scale mirrors the very system it scrutinises.
Cosmopolemos, from the Greek for order and for war, refers to the ordered universe of war itself. Across seven years of forensic collaboration, artist Edmund Clark and investigative reporter Crofton Black have scoured publicly available archives to build an index of American military spending from the $6.5 trillion in contracts issued by the U.S. Department of Defense between the attacks of September 2001 and the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan two decades later. Cosmopolemos scans across over 43 million recorded transactions that contain, in detail both granular and mighty, everything a superpower might conceivably need to wage war and sustain itself while doing so, with oil reserves and nuclear weapons sitting inside the same ledger as cookies and cleaning contracts.”
For more information and to pre-order, visit the Loose Joints website here.