Small states
, Video & Sound installation, 
Artspace, Sydney
Helen Lempire 2009

The performers create formations in direct reference to the opening of the musical ‘West Side Story’ and the gender related desire to make out a territory. A degree of site specificity is evident in Berlin as a historically contested site, the effect this has on it’s people is lamented in Wim Wenders’ 1987 film, Wings of Desire, “People are divided into as many states as there are individuals… each one takes his own with him and demands a toll when another wants to enter”.