Of All The People In All The World uses grains of rice to bring
formerly abstract statistics to startling and powerful life. Each grain of rice = one
person and you are invited to compare the one grain of rice that is
you to the millions that are not. Over the course of the festival a
team of performers carefully weigh out quantities of rice to
represent a host of human statistics - the populations of towns and
cities; the number of doctors, the number of soldiers; the number of
people born each day, the number who die; all the people who have
walked on the moon; deaths in the
holocaust. The statistics are arranged in labelled piles creating an
ever-changing landscape of rice. The statistics and their
juxtapositions are moving, shocking,
celebratory, witty and thought provoking.
“The knowledge gained is astonishing.” - Sueddeutsche Zeitung
“Part amused, part amazed, one wanders through the hall, looks, marvels and understands.” - Neue Zuericher Zeitung
