A Febrile Standard

A new work in progress selected as a finalist for the fourth edition of the COCA PROJECT, Two Wild Seas, Taranto, Italy.

A Febrile Standard is a proposal for an outdoor installation—in relation to personal biography (I was born in Malta to Scottish parents)—employing the symbolism of a 'fever flag' to reflect on meaning-making outside imposed, constructed systems like nationalism or colonialism.

[...] time and place of birth, in relation to a proposition of identity that I prefer to think of as more related to an alignment of planets and stars, rather than political borders carved out through conflict [...] the ‘fever flag’ is a complex visual metaphor for zoonotic interplay among human culture, non-human organisms and the environment, rendered as a colonial-parasitic symbol.

"It was suddenly as if signs no longer had specific denotative meanings; they had ambient powers."Caroline Busta (2024) Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content.