Of All The People In All The World
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
" or "the population of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
". As the show progresses, new piles are made by "curators". Topical events are also covered, such as a pile representing the people who lost jobs upon the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers
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, which happened during the September 2008 exhibition. Some of the piles are shaped to represent something associated with the statistic; such as the rice representing the crowd at a football match being in the shape of a stadium, with players in formation. Visitors, or people using the show's website, are invited to suggest new statistics for inclusion.
On arrival, visitors are each presented with a single grain of rice, to represent themselves.
Due to space limitations, some versions of the exhibition have a had a more limited geographical scope, covering only the host country.
The installation was last (until 5 October 2008) shown, in its full "All The World" configuration for only the second time, in a disused factory belonging to AE Harris, in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
: the home town of Stan's Cafe. At the end of the show, all the rice used was returned to the food chain.