The Rice Show

http://www.wesleyan.edu/feettothefire
Of All The People In All The World is a fascinating performance/art installation that uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statistics to startling and powerful life. In this captivating exhibition, each grain of rice is equal to one person and you are invited to compare the one grain that is you to the millions that are not. Over a period of days a team of performers carefully weigh out quantities of rice to represent a host of human statistics. The statistics and their juxtapositions can be subtle, witty and thought provoking. The work has been performed in cities from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Madrid to New York City and past installations have included the people born today in the world and those who will die today, everyone who was killed in the Holocaust, all the millionaires in the USA and everyone who is HIV positive. As part of Feet to the Fire: Exploring Global Climate Change from Science to Art, Wesleyan has commissioned Stans Cafe to produce a version of Of All the People in All the World: USA which helps humanize the issues of climate change. (Video by Paul Horton/Intro/outro music by Evan Manners)

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[feettothefire]

Over 5,000 lbs. of rice were donated to local soup kitchens and food pantries following completion of the show.

[esdvog]

@NewgroundsOwnSBB ...few hundred - very well, it's better than nothing. this show is a slap to the hunger in the world! omg, what a pitiful level of civil consciousness in this university... was so easy to use sand or salt to illustrate the population stat or whatever other volumes ...

[NewgroundsOwnSBB]

@kreed2733 they have one called "people who could be fed on emergency rations for one day by the rice in this room", it's a few hundred grains maybe

[alecjsona]

Climate change is a fraud stupid. We cant control what this planet does or how she does it, you arrogant fool.

Ill see you in 30 years when another moron is telling me the same bull, just like they did 30 years ago.

I thought an ice age was coming. Wake up, man....think for yourself.

[kreed2733]

Did you consider how big the pile of rice would be for the statistic of how many people could be fed in the world with the rice you just wasted

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