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

Once the players have laid out their two opposing words it is up to the table to vote on the word they value highest. Only those players at the table who are not betting on that particular hand can vote for the result. No one standing around the table can vote, although they can play.