Liliane Lijn
The Power Game   1970

The card game originally called Keys consists of 52 playing cards with a printed word on each side.

Cards are 10 x 7 cm

First performed in 1974 at the International Festival for Democracy in Chile, Royal College of Art, London in collaboration with Alistair Mackintosh.

A one hour video documentary of the performance The Power Game is distributed by Lux in VHS and Beta SP.
LUX, 3rd Floor, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ

There are no numbers in the Power Game. It is played with single words, and the object is to weigh the meaning of these words and not to make sentences. Each player has four words to choose from and has to make his or her own decision concerning the power of the word-concept which he or she has chosen.