About

Anna Clock (they/them) is an artist, composer and musician.

Their work spans theatre, film, radio, installation, written texts and live music. Their practice is centred on ways of listening, and challenging audiences to listen to each other, and their world, in new ways. They play the cello and also cut hair.

They are currently pursuing a Techne and AHRC funded practice-based Collaborative Doctoral Award with Royal Holloway University and the Science Museum Group (UK), researching how we listen to outer space, the aurality of spacetime and facilitating listening in museum spaces.

They have presented work at theatres, galleries and venues including Barbican, The Royal Court Theatre, Wellcome Collection, Shakespeare’s Globe, Royal Exchange Theatre, The Albany, Lyric Hammersmith, Soho Theatre, V & A Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Copeland Gallery (UK), Project Arts Centre, Cooper Gallery, Gate Theatre (IRL), Times Square Arts, Irish Arts Centre, UC San Diego (USA), Mainz Staatstheater, Dresden Staatsschauspiel (GER), and a range of site specific locations including basements, cemeteries and a raft on a pond. 

Their audio works have been played on Radio 4, Radio 3, Resonance FM, Earth FM and RTE Lyric radio. 

Their compositions have been played by ensembles such as RTE Contempo Quartet, Tonnta, New Dublin Voices, Kirkos Ensemble, Node Ensemble, Dulciana, Gamelan Nua and Téada Orchestra, and as a musician they have collaborated with Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Woven Skull, Hozier, David Lacey, Gavin Prior, David Turpin, Emma O’Reilly and others.

In 2020-22 they consulted on an independent research project into medical listening and telehealth supported by The Cleveland Clinic and Columbia University, and they have an ongoing collaborative research project with neuro-ethicist Lauren Sankary around sound, headphone space, gender and vulnerability.

Their work is often participatory and they have run workshops, lectured and taught in the UK, Ireland, Germany, the USA, Colombia, and online.

They also cut hair, offering affordable gender-neutral hairdressing in the queer community.