Deep Ziggi
Light installation. Collaboration with Moradavaga
"For the Water Light Festival
2019 in Brixen, Italy, Moradavaga discovered an almost forgotten medieval story which is about a
mysterious being. According to the tale a giant octopus has been hidden in the historic "deep Ziggl in
the outer lane" many centuries ago. The reasons for it are unclear, but the fragments of an anecdote
reveal that the creature has been brought from distant waters by traveling sailors as a gift to the
people. However, the former town council did not want to make friendship with the well-tuned creature,
whereupon they decided to make the "alien being" disappear immediately. So, in a foggy night the giant
octopus was thrown into the "deep Ziggl" in Stuffels. Many decades later, in 1906, when the fountain was
removed, the last memories and stories about the octopus faded away.
After the fountain was rebuilt in 1993, according to an old model, hardly anyone could do anything with
the strange sounds coming from the fountain. But now Deep Ziggi seems to have found the way up again.
Deep Ziggi joins the Moradavaga's series of the found giant sea creatures, 'Vernie, 'Kraki' and 'Squiggly Wiggly'. After sightings on the
Azores islands in Portugal, Taipei in Taiwan, Plymouth in England, a new octopus in Brixen now seems to
find its way to the surface."
Written by
Moradavaga.
