diz_qo
Cluster Exhibitor | Visual Installation | Photography & Print Fair 2022
Breathing Space
diz_qo is a multi disciplinary artist, creating kinetic art, projection installation, sound design,
photography, & mixed media 2D work. diz_qo also produces video content for live performance, documentary,
art film & music videos.
diz_qo studied Fine Art at the University of East London, where he specialised in ‘combined media’ which lead to early experiments in tape/slide,16mm film, & video art. Whilst working in the music and creative/events industries as a lighting and video designer, diz_qo was part of the Luna Nera art collective who created site-specific events, primarily using abandoned buildings and found materials.
Breathing Space
Breathing Space
More recently diz_qo has created video installations at the Delaware Festival(UK), Tinderdust Festival(UK), Jaki Liebezeit(Germany), and Intrinsic(France), and has collaborated with experimental musical and visual artists such as Kumo, Spatial, Andrew Weatherall, Drumsoffchaos, Reiner Linke, Jochen Irmler, Michael Rother, Jan Jelinek, The Chi Factory, Violeta Vicci, Cielofuturo, Vvvlad, Baby Vulture, E/Tape, Gyorgy Ono, Coté, Kumo, Masayoshi Fujita, Chocolate Hills, Metamono, & Blackmoon 1348, and more recently, has been part of the US/UK/Italian project Mindframe.
diz_qo’s recent work has focussed on a conversation with Mother Earth / Gaia, where trees are rooted to all consciousness via common mycorrhizal networks, and has discussed the concept where we are truly connected to every other person on this planet, and have a shared responsibility for it.
Breathing Space
Breathing Space
Ground Floor
“I wanted to use the concept of a Breathing Space as a physical, metaphysical, & psychological space.
- giving each other breathing space metaphysically & physically.
- allowing space in our lives / consciousness to breathe as individuals.
- as a space to meditate and breathe easy.
I imagined a tree’s breath.
I imagined the earth is breathing.
I imagined a human breath.
I imagined a breath as part of feeling connected with your mind and body.
I imagined the breath as part of a ritual, incantation or spell.
I imagined a breath as part of feeling connected with yourself and others.”
The Tracheobronchial Tree
Top Floor
‘The lungs are separated into sections called lobes, two on the left and three on the right. The air passages continue to divide into ever smaller tubes, which finally connect with tiny air sacs called alveoli. This gradually branching array of tubes is referred to as the tracheobronchial *tree* because of the remarkable similarity to the branching pattern of a tree.’
How wonderful and mysterious that we have such similarities between the human body and Mother nature’s arboreal gift to the planet(otherwise known as Earth’s lungs): the common tree…
“I imagined a world where trees are rooted to all consciousness via common mycorrhizal networks.
I imagined a world where the human race is truly connected to nature.
I imagined a world where we are truly connected to every other person on this planet.
I imagined a world where we all have equality and respect for our feelings and beliefs.
I imagined a world where we all respect the natural world we live in.
I imagined a world where we all have equal responsibility for the air we breathe.
I imagined a world where we can truly BREATHE.”