A new show that uses grains of rice to represent the 6.7 billion of us on the planet has been touring where the rice has been used to replicate a whole range of statistics from the population of the USA (1st image shown above) to the number of people who have walked on the moon (2nd image shown above). People are invited to compare the one grain that is you to the millions that are not. The statistics can be shocking, witty, moving and really thought provoking.
The show adapts to its setting: the country, city and building it is in. The amount of rice used varies according to which version is performed, Of All The People In All The World: UK is a standard small version using 1,000Kg of rice to represent 60,000,000 people. Of All The People In All The World: Europe at 12,000Kg is an example of a medium size version. So far there has been a single presentation of Of All The People In All The World in which the whole world's population was represented by 104 tons of rice in Stuttgart. See more images at Flickr.
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