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Message from a Local Performer

A most profound and creative event is taking place on the Wesleyan campus during the next 12 days. Ideally, one will take it in more than once, for the exhibit will continue to evolve.

Of All The People In All The World is a living, changing work of art and theatre, revealing human statistics of interest and concern. The creators hope to make normally impossible-to-imagine statistics TANGIBLE.

The idea was created in the UK by a couple of British actors who go by the name of Stan’s Café, and it is currently touring the planet. The show’s last stop was Barcelona.

This is surely the closest this world traveling exhibit will come to any of us in Connecticut. And it’s well worth the short drive to Wesleyan.

The show is held at the Zilkha Art Gallery at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts as part of their year long dedication to issues of global climate change and other relevant subjects.

The show is a fascinating brief walk through various displays of facts, using grains of rice as the unit of measurement to depict human statistics while suggesting connections that exist between and among them.

You, the visitor, can even bring your own set of statistics (if reliably sound and true) to the show and, possibly, they will be added to the display while you’re there. The gentlemen (all from the UK) particularly
welcome statistics relating to our lives here in our own locale, Connecticut. If they can be authenticated, they can be added to the show.

This is an intelligent, creative living exhibit–which will enlighten and provoke. You and your students, colleagues, family, and friends should be among All The People In All The World who visit this important show.

Your visit can be as short or as long as you’d like. You can spend as few as ten to fifteen minutes among the displayed groupings of rice piles and titles or as much time as you’d like at the Gallery show–to take in the significance of it all.

And it is free to the public.

Anne Cassady

887 thoughts on “Message from a Local Performer”

  1. The idea of making impossible-to-imagine statistics tangible, especially through a living exhibit that changes over 12 days on the Wesleyan campus, sounds genuinely compelling. I’d be curious how Stan’s Café’s approach compares with newer visual storytelling tools like TopView AI / for helping people grasp scale.

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  3. What a brilliant concept! Using grains of rice to make abstract human statistics tangible is both deeply evocative and educational. A must-see installation for anyone seeking a fresh perspective on global issues.

  4. An extraordinary concept! “Of All The People In All The World” sounds like a deeply moving exhibit. Transforming abstract statistics into tangible piles of rice offers a powerful, enlightening perspective on humanity.

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  8. This sounds like a fascinating and creative exhibit. I really like the idea of using rice to make large statistics easier to understand and more meaningful. Thanks for sharing!

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  10. Great read — it’s always refreshing to see local performance art getting this kind of thoughtful coverage. The idea of making statistics tangible through living theatre is such a creative approach.

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  18. Good reminder, and the detail about coming back more than once is the part most people will skip past. An exhibit built out of arithmetic changes shape as the pile gets re-weighed, so a single visit only shows you one state of the data — which is a strange and useful thing to ask of an audience that’s used to looking at a finished object.

    Some background that makes the Wesleyan run more interesting: Stan’s Café are a Birmingham company, and the piece premiered in 2003 as Of All The People In All The World: UK, using a full tonne of rice for the country’s 60 million — one grain per person, which means counting is never the point; the honest response to a pile that size is to stop counting and start weighing. Their own Birmingham show in 2008 came in at 120 kg, so the scale genuinely shifts with the statistic, not just with the room.

    Two things worth passing to whoever brings the local data over. First, the invitation only works with denominators: unless you bring per-capita figures, a small state will always look harmless next to a large one, and the pile will do the arguing for a number that hasn’t earned it. Second, since this is the climate year, the pile I’d want to see is the carbon one — US per-capita emissions against the rest of the world is exactly the kind of statistic that’s impossible to picture and easy to weigh out. (There’s also an accidental second reading worth noticing: it was February 2009, months after rice prices tripled and exporters shut their borders, so a tonne of grain in a gallery was, for a lot of visitors, a commodity before it was a unit of measurement.)

    And the vocabulary arrived later — this is what VIS researchers now call data physicalization, and Stan’s Café is one of the canonical ancestors. Pairing the gallery with a data-visualization or quantitative-analysis course session would be a nice thing for the CFA to keep doing.

    (Small practical note, given how many photographs of the piles ended up on this blog: when I line up shots from different days into one header or comparison — say via Image Stretcher — I stretch an image online and set the width and height independently, so a tall shot of the Rice Room fits a wide layout without losing the labels on the edge.)

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