'With Casey, we get to meet a storyteller as well as a poet, because he
is honing a kind of cinematic and musical language. I'm so happy to see
voices like his emerging from Birmingham' Raymond Antrobus
Walk around any stately home, museum or National Trust property and you
are likely to see the words please do not touch more than a few times.
The irony is in most cases the sign is telling you not to touch
something that was stolen from another land, something that should have
never been touched in the first place. Please Do Not Touch asks
important questions about these things, these places and this society -
Where would these things be if they were never taken from their rightful
place? How have the ill gotten gains of colonialism shaped our society
today? What does it mean to appreciate and enjoy spaces that were never
meant for you?