The video documented a group of unionists and their families throwing stones at the façade of the building. In Touch and Go, a film that was newly produced for Touched, the artist considered the fate of humankind and the built environment as it is caught in the eddies and flows of an unpredictable globalised economy. The signage on the façade, with its connotations of materialist excess, was poignantly incongruous against the dilapidation and decay. Until early 2015, The ‘Europleasure building’ was an obsolete remnant, a memento of a past economic era. The companies have long since vanished, but their ghostlike monuments have remained. This building exemplified the thriving economy that continued to be expressed through the urban fabric of many western cities until the last two decades of the twentieth century. Many people in Liverpool will have been familiar with a building on the edge of Chinatown with distinctive rows of windows and the memorable sign across the façade, recalling the company that occupied it: ‘Europleasure International Ltd’.
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