Anne E Stoner | Collection of Work
Anne E. Stoner (b. 1999) is an interdisciplinary artist and social ethnographer focusing in sonic practice.
Her work brings about and coalesces studies in bodily complexities and disability studies, human geographical theories and psychogeographies, contemporary methodologies in ethnographic archiving and queer anthropology, new possibilities within technology and studies within human movement and routine, to create a practice with an empathetic methodology that challenges visual standards within 21st century artmaking. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including venues such as the Tang Museum, New York State, the Morley Gallery, London and Senate House, London. 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 2023 she began working toward an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Email: anneestoner@gmail.com
CV
Linktree Drowning Out the Noise: Private Listening, Public Spatialities, Queer Wellbeing2021-Present
Exhibited at:
The Tang Teaching Museum and Gallery - March-August, 2025
The Northwestern Wadsworth-Wirtz Center - 2023
Pulished In:
Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, Special Series 5.(3): Queer Politics and Positionalities in Sonic Art
Link to audio/text essay
https://tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/714-elevator-music-52-anne-e-stoner-drowning-out-the-noise
Sound artist Anne E. Stoner interviewed eight queer and gender non-conforming individuals as they completed their daily errands and walks in Edinburgh and Chicago, asking what they were listening to and how they navigated the city as queer people. Drowning Out the Noise (2021–2025) layers interviewees’ meditations on queerness, gender performance, and public space over the private playlists of their lives. In doing so, Stoner explores the power of sound to carve out an alternate, queer reality in city spaces that may not always feel safe for queer people.
Elevator Music 52: Anne E. Stoner — Drowning Out the Noise presents all eight interviews together for the first time. Overhead speakers play songs mentioned in the interviews in a collaged soundtrack reminiscent of bustling street traffic. Eight pairs of headphones hang from the walls of the elevator, which visitors are invited to wear, shifting out of the collective soundtrack to focus on each interviewee’s distinct voice and viewpoint.