Performance and exhibition based on the bestselling book of the same name by American anthropologist Hugh Raffles.
At first glance, the project is about insects: like in the book by Hugh Raffles, it contains phenomena, facts and stories from their lives. However, in fact, the authors of Insectopedia - director Polina Kardymon, set designer Anastasia Yudina, playwright Egor Zaitsev, composer Vladimir Bocharov and video artist Mikhail Zaikanov - follow the anthropologist in drawing a panorama of our relationships with the “other.”
