Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change

HD video
45 minutes
2012

In collaboration with Normen Perke

With
Barbara Cassin, Thierry Lévy, Olivier Favier and Fabrice D’Almeida

For the work Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change (2012), produced in collaboration with the artist Normen Perke, Dominique Koch invited four people to discuss the boundaries and possibilities of language. The conversation was documented on video. Unmoderated and without any further instructions from the artist, the conversation is a mixture of refined chat, intellectual competition and self-dramatization on the part of the assembled speakers. The situation created by the artist often becomes the topic of conversation and prompts reflection on conventions and power and at the same time the potency of language.
— Pablo Müller

Poster. Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change. Courtesy the artist
Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change. Installation view at Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Filmstill. Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change. Courtesy the artist
Filmstill. Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change. Courtesy the artist
Filmstill. Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change. Courtesy the artist
Filmstill. Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change. Courtesy the artist
Filmstill. Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change. Courtesy the artist
Filmstill. Imagine a Situation Where the Rules of the Game Change. Courtesy the artist