Sites of Research or ‘no layers of the onion’: Phantom Europe

Exploring conditions of visibility between different media, Phantom Europe reflects on transpositions between the time and place of a ‘site’ visit and those of its virtual revisiting through the thought of film and text. In an apparent split between the present and the afterwards of reflection, how might traditional ethnographic claims for knowledge based on ‘being there’ or ‘seeing for oneself’ – contrasted with drawing upon diverse forms of documentation – raise the very question of this research itself?