You be the judge:
MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA) will be hosting a project called "Of All the People In All the World" from Feb 10 -25, 2007.
The venue will be shipping in 16 tons of rice -- that's 875,000,000 grains, or approximately one grain for each person in the Americas.
Mass MoCA says that the rice will be "sorted into piles representing a range of human statistics." It promises that a pile representing the number of people living in gated communities will be placed side-by-side with a pile representing all the people in prison – and adds that "they’re almost the same size."
A team of performers will sort and re-sort the rice into different piles (to represent different statistics) during the installation. They will talk with visitors touring the installation.
So is it "art" or just a super-sized geography project? I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on this...
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