Controlled Chaos: Blown Up

Controlled Chaos: Blown Up
by The Visual Jazz Ensemble

(Collective members of Gallery Gachet and Friends) and first time Curation by mental health consumer David-Sky Marchant.

Moving beyond conventional  allegorical representations of sight and sound.

Visionary explorations curated to renounce academic constructs about the dissonance of sight and sound. Live peformance, sound installations, paintings and etchings to encourage community dialogue about defining and embracing innovation through accident, personal exploration and poverty. This exhibition will also illuminate intellectual ownership of mental health as a tool for Visionary Artists.

David-Sky has used the Artists work(collectively known as the Visual Free Jazz Ensemble) as a translating device to evoke or awaken an atheistic often associated with “Free Jazz”. He has embraced the absurdity of mental illness  and employed individual artists work as  instruments in a metaphorical Jam or Blowing Session.

David-Sky is quoted as saying: I had a desire and vision to liberate the patron from the burden of expectations and show the inherent value of Visionary Art and showcase the creative potential of refuting Law and/or Apathy. I don’t want to be told what to enjoy and how I must see myself or others in the context of art..

After 20+ years of mental health he feels it is time to allow a visitation to his reality.

Curatorial Statement

Controlled Chaos is a  movement not a phrase. Metaphorically it can only be likened to its sister the Atom Bomb …….it is the fury of dissonance from which comes our existence out of an abyss-David-Sky Marchant