Self-Accusation May 15, 2008

When Peter Handke published Self-Accusation in 1966 he envisioned an event he called a Speak-in. He said that they were "spectacles without pictures, inasmuch as they give no picture of the world." No picture, no actions, only natural expression. Yet the words of this spectacle take us form birth to the present, from awareness of self to awareness of action, from duty to demands, from expression to language and from what we thought to what we became.