 She focuses her research on artistic storytelling and how people can make their stake in the world through doing so.Anida Yoeu Ali's work "The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night" (2015) and her earlier works, including "The Old Cinema" (2014), extends from her "Buddhist Bug" series of photographs, videos and live performances.In these works, the artist playfully inhabits a sinuous, caterpillar-like costume whose color references the robes of Buddhist monks, in which the bug is also not given a specific gender to be "hybrid in nature".