Power Game, Zabludowicz Collection, London

19th April 2012

Originally staged by Liliane Lijn in 1974 and renacted at the ICA in 2009, Power Game is concerned with the power of words and how people interpret meaning depending on their interests and preconceptions.
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Poem Game, 1970

In 1970, Liliane, Liliane Lijn created a deck of 54 of word cards. Each card had one word to a side, ‘the words themselves having come to mind as I wrote them on the cards’. She originally called the cards Keys and invented three games to play with them: a game of power, a game of poetry and a game of divination.
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