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
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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.

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