INSTALLATIONS
Boots with stories

SKINHEAD
(an excerpt…)
1986
⦁ May – Battered by the police in Gamla Stan, Stockholm.
⦁ June – Big fight at a beach. Complete loss of memory, battered by the cops, arrested. My boots were sent to a technical laboratory.
⦁ July-August – I’m released after six weeks in the arrest. My boots are still confiscated. I felt naked without my boots.
⦁ September – The police returned my boots and clothes. The clothes were cut into pieces and the boots were scratched. I hated the cops for scratching my beloved boots.
⦁ Autumn – Reunion with my family. They tried to help me.
⦁ 30th of November – Kungsträdgården in Stockholm, celebrating the memory of king Karl XII.
1987
⦁ Spring – In prison because of insult and battery.
⦁ Summer – Attending a Bad Manners gig at Fryshuset in Stockholm.
⦁ October – Banging a punk chick and kept my boots on.
⦁ November – Big fight, my buddies ran away and left me alone. I got home drunk, nailing my boots to the wall – “I’m going to quit the Skinhead life!!! Two days later – I realize that I can’t live without them…
1986
⦁ May – Battered by the police in Gamla Stan, Stockholm.
⦁ June – Big fight at a beach. Complete loss of memory, battered by the cops, arrested. My boots were sent to a technical laboratory.
⦁ July-August – I’m released after six weeks in the arrest. My boots are still confiscated. I felt naked without my boots.
⦁ September – The police returned my boots and clothes. The clothes were cut into pieces and the boots were scratched. I hated the cops for scratching my beloved boots.
⦁ Autumn – Reunion with my family. They tried to help me.
⦁ 30th of November – Kungsträdgården in Stockholm, celebrating the memory of king Karl XII.