“One night, I was dreaming I was a scorpion. A scorpion happy with itself and doing as it pleased, unaware that I was myself. Soon, I was awakening and there I was, unmistakably real. Now I do not know whether I was myself when I was dreaming that I was a scorpion, or whether I am now a scorpion, dreaming I am human. Yet, between a human and a scorpion, there should be some difference! Don’t you think so?”
A woman named Kanchana and several scorpions explore collaborative survival approaches in a posthuman future in which all living beings are considered equal. “Ultraviolet” invites us to an encounter with other forms of life and experiences involving themes of inter-species sociability, the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene and speculative Fabulations. Inspired by a Chinese poem of the 3rd century BC - written by Zhuangzi - "The Butterfly's Dream", “Ultraviolet” conveys an allegorical narrative in which the parable and the fable unfold in a futuristic and enchanted world.
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