Some months later I was the first time in Göteborg and there was some distance to what we had experienced in Genua and afterwards. I got a kind of a sightseeing-tour from friends to places where things had happened, like Hvitfeldska School, where protestors had stayed and which the police had closed in with hundreds of containers.
It was a strange feeling to be at all these places with the media images still in my head. I put the layer of media images on top of what I see there on the spot. Of course you do not see anything in this picture but you could also see containers or the police finally storming the school.
Or Avenyn, the shopping street that was the place of the riots where the flag buring image was taken. It looks like a normal shopping street but you might also have the image of the flag in your head. You always have these strange references and you start to interpret these locations on a different level with the images in your head.
Or Vasaplatsen, where the police shot at the protestors: there is almost nothing left and the only trace I was shown was is here, where one shot hit the the pole. The place is always kind of kept free of posters. It's only the small thing you would see.
