Power Game, The Photographers Gallery, 2022
02 September 2022 at 18.30–20.30
Live performance with Liliane Lijn
Power Game is both a game and a live performance. Played as an altered version of the classic card game Chemin de Fer, with word cards created by Liliane Lijn, gambling is used to investigate the politics of identity and power. Power Game explores the meanings, misconceptions and the power and poetry of words through spectacle and play.
First staged during the Festival for Chilean Liberation at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1974, Power Game holds a mirror to our preconceptions and our fantasies of power. There is no script, no actors, no rehearsals. The artist uses participants’ behaviour and their reactions to the situation in which she places them.
Produced and created by Liliane Lijn
Photos by (© Heather Shuker) Courtesy Photographers Gallery
