Anna Lise Jensen

Anna Lise Jensen

  • News Bio/CV
  • Rooms in The World, 2025
  • New Suns for New Seasons, 2024
  • Personal Infra-Structure, 2024
  • Harbor Lines, 2023
  • Harbor Library, 2022
  • Plant Library, 2022
  • Tidal Strait, 2021
  • Work 2004-2020
    • Jane Jacobs Lives Here: Bike the Verrazzano, 2020
    • Poetic Action, 2020-2021
    • Trying, 2020
    • Political Office, 2018
    • Jamaica, Queens, 2012- 2016
    • Fjellerup i Bund & Grund, 2013-2015
    • Al Safa, Bay Ridge, 2013
    • A Hard Read residency, 2012
    • At Home at Hopper('s) House, 2011
    • A Lot, NY community gardens, 2009-2013
    • Vets & Pets, 2008 - 2010
    • One Leg Out, 2007
    • Visitor, 2006 - 2010
    • "Outsiders" and "Insiders" 2004-present

One Leg Out, 2007, is a memorial text of 62,000 words, based on a personal experience that took place in the early 1990's. 


The text portrays the chance encounter and symbiotic relationship between an intense storyteller, who is slipping into homelessness, and a silenced but active listener.


The Narrator's voice is one of great sensitivity, cravings, and gallows humor - expressing a conviction that as bad as any situation is, nothing prevents it from spinning further out of control. It is also a voice of chronic resistance, and the critique is multi-directed: at dominant systems, counter-systems, family, social circle, intermittent workmates, self, and listener. Meaning is found in continued engagement and moments of tender connection.



Narrator-discussing-Mad-Housers.pdf


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