Farnham Maltings rice exhibition.

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See the world in a brand new way! This incredible installation uses rice to represent statistics, bringing global issues and local realities into sharp focus.  Explore thought-provoking displays on topics ranging from marriage and wealth to global conflict, health, and migration. Each grain of rice represents an individual, transforming abstract numbers into tangible human stories.  Experience the surprising and emotional impact of seeing data come to life. Don't miss this extraordinary exhibition at Farnham Maltings – a unique opportunity to gain a new perspective on the world around us. Pay what you can!  #DataVisualization #SocialIssues #FarnhamMaltings #RiceArt

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00:00Go!

00:01So you can explore the exhibition in any route you want,

00:04but we tend to start here because this is everyone who was born in the world today

00:08and everyone who will die in the world today.

00:11And then we take it on into those equivalent statistics for Farnham and the local area,

00:16the residents of Farnham and the political constituency there.

00:21We take on that theme when we come to marriages.

00:24So everyone who got married in England and Wales last year

00:28and the people in Farnham constituency who are married and divorced and separated and single and so on.

00:38And we get into the Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez wedding over here as well.

00:45We'll rip on that with their guests and the protesters and the population of Venice there.

00:54And then, keeping on with the Jeff Bezos thing, we've got the employees of Amazon here

00:59and how it's grown in the last 14 years.

01:04And back to that, we get into space travel and space efforts.

01:09This is one of the biggest piles we have in the exhibition at the moment.

01:12Obviously, exhibition's growing all through the week, but at the moment,

01:15this is McDonald's customers in the UK each day.

01:19We've got the farmers who are growing food to help with that.

01:23The KFC customers, so they're not doing quite as well as McDonald's.

01:28And then, possibly related, possibly not, we've got people who die of coronary heart diseases in the UK.

01:39That's actually 2022.

01:42So there's more health stuff.

01:44Everyone who works for the NHS, which is the equivalent to the population of Birmingham,

01:49which is the city we've come down from to do the show.

01:52And over here, we get more into people seeking asylum, refugees, crossing of the channel.

02:04Our now lifeboats.

02:07And we've got some more war-related statistics.

02:12So over there, we've got Ukraine.

02:14So that was the Crimea war back Victorian times.

02:20And then the contemporary Ukrainian conflict.

02:23And over here, we've got the Gaza conflict in numbers.

02:29Well, obviously, yeah, we want to mix the humour and the more emotionally gripping things.

02:36We want to surprise people.

02:38But we also want a picture of the world.

02:40So we want to address lots of different themes that we encounter in life and across and around the world as well.

02:49So people coming down are often surprised by what they find.

02:54They often leave saying that they see the world in a new way.

02:58And sometimes you see numbers written down on a sheet of paper and they don't really make sense.

03:04Or it's difficult to have a real grasp on what they mean.

03:08Whereas here, you see the individuals that are being referred to in those statistics.

03:12So it sounds daft, but people do tear up and they do laugh out loud in the exhibition,

03:19which is something that's difficult to communicate when you just hear,

03:22oh, there's this show about statistics that uses rice.

03:25It's incredibly exciting.

03:27This is an amazing company.

03:29Stan's Calf at Fran and Maltings have kind of worked with them a bit before.

03:33And I was very aware of this amazing installation work, performance installation,

03:39that's traveled around the world.

03:41It's been to, you know, it's been to Cairo, to the Kennedy Center, to Venice Biennale,

03:46just all over the world.

03:47So I was really keen to see if there's any way that we could bring it to farm and bring it to Surrey.

03:52So I'm over the moon that it's here.

03:55It's an extraordinary work.

03:56It's lots of different piles of rice that are with each grain of rice is one person,

04:01a whole range of different statistics that are kind of physically brought to life through the rice.

04:06And the impact's incredible.

04:09It's really emotional.

04:10I saw it in Brighton, at Brighton Dome.

04:13And, you know, there's a big pile of rice in one corner.

04:16You kind of go over and you suddenly go, oh, that's the number of people that are neurodiverse in the UK.

04:21It was another pile of rice and it sells you the number of people that live in Farnham.

04:26So you're kind of making up kind of different pictures of the world.

04:31Some that are really local, kind of hyper-local to kind of Farnham or Surrey,

04:35and others that are kind of relating to things that are going on in the world.

04:39There's some statistics around some of the different wars that are happening.

04:42And it's really kind of for everyone to come to.

04:45So I'm really, really pleased that we've got it here at Farnham Maltings.

04:48It opens very, very soon.

04:50It opens today and it's going to be running through until Tuesday.

04:54All the kind of times are on our website.

04:57We also are really keen that everybody can access this.

05:01So we pay what you can.

05:03So it's up to you to just kind of, you know, pay a pound, two pounds, five pounds, ten pounds, whatever you fancy.

05:10But it's a incredible experience.

05:13And yeah, I really hope that people come and come along to see it.

05:17Okay.

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