Anne E. Stoner (b. 1999) is a sound artist, researcher and social practitioner whose work criticizes geographic, infrastructural and political systems of disability, injury, and death.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at the Tang Museum, New York State, and the Chazen Museum, Madison. Anne’s sound and writing can be read and listened to in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, Global Performance Studies Journal, and the Struer Tracks Sound Biennial Almanac.
Anne holds an undergraduate MA(h) from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art and an MA from Northwestern University. In 2026 she earned an MFA in Studio Art, focusing in time-based media, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She currently teaches Art and Art History at Carthage College.
Email: anneestoner@gmail.com
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October 15-17, 2026 - Speaking at the American Association for Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference, 2026
September 15-November 7, 2026 - Arts and Literature Laboratory 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition
August 30-September 7, 2026 - “The Power, The Shiver, The Anthropocene” with Ashley McCullough in UNPOP at Burning Man 2026
June 2-29, 2026 - Artist in Residence at the I-Park Foundation
April 10–May 22, 2026 - “Infrastructure Bodies/Injury Systems: An Exhibition by Anne E. Stoner” at the Chazen Museum of Art
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The Disabled Wandering Atlas: A Distanced Social-Curatorial Project
Exhibited at the Robinson Map Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Do you wander? If so, can you show us?
A question that prompted a call, inviting disabled individuals to respond with field recordings, videos, and abstract mappings of their wandering. The resulting collection of ephemera shares a documentation of a wandering that spans locations, geographies, virtualities, and
imaginations. Some maps share a joyful wandering, one which sprawls, rambles, and is unbound by time or energy. Other maps share a wandering forced by tangible realities; by a wheelchair battery running out, by an inconsistency in GP scheduling, or by Wednesday’s trash blocking the curbed edge on the sidewalk.
Taking inspiration from Caquard and Cartwright’s 2014 framework of narrative mapping, and the Situationist practice of psychogeographic mapping, this exhibition presents a cartography which is abstract and rooted in an individual experience of place and space. From studies of the dérive
– the 1956 Situationist practice of planned yet spontaneous excursions into the urban
environment – I became intrigued by the possibility of a disabled dérive. Where the purpose of the dérive served as an attempt to access the city in a non-normative, transformational method, I began to wonder if disabled individuals are able to access the same atypical wandering.
When disabled people wander, where does it lead? What happens along the way?
Those whose work is included in this exhibition share a wandering which is complex, multifaceted and often a geographical product of a spatiality or temporality. Here, disabled wandering is not quantifiable as simply a planned, purposeful pursuit of a non-normative
situation, as in the case of the dérive. Rather, the disabled individuals in this exhibition do not search for wandering, and instead find themselves moving in a non-conformative manner as a part of their everyday methods of traveling, conversing, knowing and being.