Keta Gutmane - A/W 17-18

Just in time for our favorite season, our favorite Latvian designer stuns once again with her latest collection. Inspired by women's movements and voices of progressive people around the world, the A/W 17-18 pieces exude boldness, sophistication and femininity. We also love this subtly militant campaign which showcases strong women and pushes gender norms.

Along with the always present, black, this season's palate takes brighter steps using luscious reds and blues with white and olive rounding things out. Ms. Gutmane makes no mistake in letting us know that the collection is very "Female Dominated", but we also appreciate the masculine shapes and garments which look great in exaggerated shapes like the big shouldered trench coat.

The 80s/90s VHS theme of the campaign also strikes a nice chord as it adds to the serious, yet playful moods of the collection. Overall the collection carries a very triumphant appeal which is much needed during these times.

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Another fantastic display of concept and craftsmanship from Keta Gutmane. Please visit www.ketagutmane.com for more.

-JRS

Garments: all Keta Gutmane AW17/18 @ketagutmane
Photography: Aiga Ozolina
Stylist: Rudolfs A. Packevics
Shoes: The Last Conspiracy / and vintage
Model: Akvile / Starsystem Latvia
MUA: Aija Udentina
#aw18 #ketagutmane @aiga_ozo @packevics @starsystemlatvia @akviliuksss @aijah2o

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

Pacific Standard Time has become one of California's most important cultural events. For this year, the organizers present a wide-ranging exhibition that explores Latin American and Latino art in Los Angeles and across Southern California. Museums, private galleries, public spaces and more are participating and its truly an incredible survey of a vital subject. We took a look at the massive calendar and picked a few highlights. To view the full schedule and get more information please visit: www.pacificstandardtime.org

-JRS

Andrea Ferreyra, Torbellino/Whirlwind . Documentation of street performance, Mexico City, January, 1993. Photo by Gabriela González. Courtesy of Andrea Ferreyra — Andrea Ferreyra, Torbellino/Whirlwind . Documentation of street performance, Mexico City, January, 1993. Photo by Gabriela González. Courtesy of Andrea Ferreyra

Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico

Armory Center for the Arts

Features artists such as Taniel Morales, Andrea Ferreyra, and Elvira Santamaría, who operated in the margins, away from the widening mainstream. The exhibition explores the alternative, often clandestine art practices that emerged during this period marked by increasing violence, currency devaluation, industrial pollution, and political corruption. Against this turbulent backdrop, artists in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, and elsewhere devised alternative practices and new exhibition spaces to show work that often directly engaged the politics and economics of the moment.

Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas

UCR ARTSblock

In a wide-ranging survey exhibition, UCR ARTSblock will bring together contemporary artists from across the Americas who have tapped into science fiction’s capacity to imagine new realities, both utopian and dystopian.

Avenue de Mayo , 1914. Unknown photographer. Gelatin silver print in Travel Albums from Paul Fleury’s Trips to Switzerland, the Middle East, India, Asia, and South America, 1896-1918. Courtesy of The Getty Research Institute — Avenue de Mayo , 1914. Unknown photographer. Gelatin silver print in Travel Albums from Paul Fleury’s Trips to Switzerland, the Middle East, India, Asia, and South America, 1896-1918. Courtesy of The Getty Research Institute

The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930

The Getty Research Institute

Drawing on the Getty Research Institute’s special collections, this exhibition proposes a visual survey of the unprecedented growth of Latin American capital cities following the seasons of independence, observing how socio-political upheavals activated major changes in the city scale and the architectural landscape. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 examines how imported models were reinterpreted into diverse forms of re-appropriation of the national colonial and pre-Hispanic past, ushering these cities into a process of modernization.

Nervously Engendered: The Art of Gerardo Velazquez

Coagula Curatorial

The late Gerardo Velazquez was one of East L.A.’s first Chicanos to embrace punk rock. His band, Nervous Gender, combined avant-garde approaches to noise-making with the innovations of the gestating punk rock sound and scene. Nervously Engendered documents how the band’s aesthetic pioneered by Velazquez shaped how the culture at large sees queer, ethnic, and alternative "outsiders."

Alejandro Almanza Pereda - Sticks and Stones (California Decline), 2017

Outside the Garden: Alejandro Almanza Pereda

IBID Gallery

Ibid Gallery is hosting a solo exhibition of Mexican artist Alejandro Almanza Pereda, whose work explores the relationships and invisible links between sculptures, architectural spaces, and the spectator. The artist establishes a series of layered connections using visual aesthetics, precarious structures, and complex compositions of found objects. For this show, Almanza Pereda will engage viewers through dangerously fragile and seemly unstable structures. According to the artist, architectural structures are man-made shelters against the brutal forces of nature.

Rubén Ortiz Torres - Black Flag, 2014 (installation view)

Rubén Ortiz-Torres: White Washed America

Royale Projects

This solo exhibition highlights new works by Rubén Ortiz-Torres, including a tricked-out, hydraulic shopping cart and interactive paintings and sculptures influenced by lowrider cars, punk, anarchism, Minimalism, and the destruction and then preservation of David Alfaro Siqueiros' mural América Tropical. Born in Mexico City in 1964, Ortiz-Torres lives and works in Los Angeles and San Diego.

Gonzalo Lebrija, Unfolded Gold (Metallah), 2017, — Gonzalo Lebrija, Unfolded Gold (Metallah), 2017,

Chingadaras Sofisticadas

Kohn Gallery

A group exhibition bringing together nine prominent artists based in Guadalajara, Mexico, whose varied practices contribute to the city’s growing cultural ascendance and international recognition. Until recently, Guadalajara was considered one of Mexico’s most traditional cities with large industries focused on textile, artisan and craft production, perhaps best known for its ceramic fabricators and studios.

David Lamelas, Time as Activity

Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles

This exhibition features films and videos by the Argentina-born conceptual artist David Lamelas, culled from his ground-breaking and ongoing series Time as Activity, 1969–2017. These works— the first shot in Düsseldorf on 16mm film and the most recent of which streams live feeds from Athens and Berlin— investigate the durational, experiential qualities of both time and moving images.

New Brvtalism No. 111 - Axkan (*Live in the Mojave Desert)

The Brvtalist is proud to present a new mix from Axkan. The Mexico-born, Los Angeles-based artist creates blistering techno that is heavily inspired by industrial, EBM and other eclectic explorations. One of the best talents on the US West Coast, Axkan (meaning “now” or “the present”) in Nahuatl (native Mexican tongue), his music has appeared on labels like OMEN Recordings and Advanced (Black) and he has played shows from Brazil to Detroit and across Europe. New Brvtalism No. 111 was recorded live in August 2017 deep within the mystic environs of California's Mojave Desert.

For more information visit Facebook.

-JRS

The Brvtalist Premieres - Ike Yard - "Spit"

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Ike Yard. "Spit" comes off the forthcoming release, Sacred Machine, out next month on Vienna's Noiztank. Since 1979, Ike Yard has remained one of music's greatest innovators and their sound ranges from dark ambient to post-punk to techno and well beyond. The most recent re-formation has been as impactful as ever with some great live performances and excellent new material like this EP.

After just the first listen, Sacred Machine has become one of our favorite records of the year. We are thrilled to premiere the shattered, rhythmic abstractions of "Spit" and the EP also features a guest appearance by Tropic of Cancer on the incredibly infectious, "Tear Drop" as well as two other excellent tracks. Composition wise, Sacred Machine was recorded as a rehearsal. Some of the songs revisit earlier Ike Yard material and there's a very cinematic feel to the whole offering. From top to bottom, it's one to really absorb. With Sacred Machine, Noiztank continues to impress and Ike Yard remains on the cusp of the future.

Out October 16th on 12" and digital formats. Visit Noiztank for more.

-JRS

New Brvtalism No. 110 - Pact Infernal

The Brvtalist is proud to present a new mix from Pact Infernal. With excellent material already unleashed on labels like Horo, those at Atonal recently witnessed a striking live assault as well. For New Brvtalism No. 110, the shadowy project delivers an immense, ritual offering that is sure to engulf your senses.

For more information visit Facebook and Bandcamp.

-JRS

The Brvtalist Premieres: Ladan - "Zone.2"

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Ladan. The Iranian-artist, whose identity must remain anonymous, steps up for her debut release on Sciahri's Sublunar imprint. The EP contains 5 tracks of striking, cerebral works that range from pulsating rhythmics to experimental excursions. "Zone.2" is a blistering techno offering that reveals the artist's arresting layers of complexity.

After Sciarhi's trilogy on the label, this is an excellent follow up release. A truly standout debut from an emerging producer and we really hope to hear more from her. For now, in addition to the standard edition there's also an extremely limited vinyl with only 30 hand numbered and stamped copies available. It is available for pre-order now with a world wide release coming September 15th. For more visit the Sublunar official Bandcamp page.

-JRS

Sally Dige - "Holding On" Video Premiere

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere the music video of "Holding On' by Danish-Canadian artist Sally Dige. Off the new album of the same name, "Holding On" is an impressive production based on the Julian Temple film The Great Rock'n' Roll Swindle. We love the glitz, glamour, class and crass of the video and it perfects suits Dige's commanding allure and the music's sultry moods.

Out now on Avant! (EU) and DKA (North America), Holding On is a truly mesmerizing release that strikes the perfect balance of new wave-inspired synths, minimal electronics, post-punk and pop. Dige is a unique talent and we look forward to much more. For further information, visit Facebook and Instagram.

-JRS

New Brvtalism No. 109 - Morah

The Brvtalist is proud to present a new mix from Morah. The Athens-based artist has released material on Helena Hauff's Return to Disorder and is also founder of the renown Phormix podcast, event and label. His sets cover a wide range of the electronic music spectrum - vintage synth textures merge with industrial beats creating a ritualistic pathway to catharsis.The Athenian producer has gained a reputation as a post-industrial figure, hiding in the shadowy undergrounds of the Greek capital. Surrounded in a town of zombies, Morah decided to focus his entire existence to music. This is the beginning of a psychedelic journey and a devastated attempt for something real and pure.

For more information visit Soundcloud.

-JRS

Track list:
1) The Klinik - Sick In Your Mind on 3Rio Records
2) Unhuman - Resist Order on She Lost Control
3) Winterkalte - The fate of the Forest
3) ANFS Ballet on Modal Analysis
5) Agent Side Grinder - Telefunk on Enfant Terrible
6) Mika Vainio - Mining on Editions Mego
7) De bons en Pierre - Francine on Dark Entries
8) Helena Hauff - Sworn To Secrecy on Werkdiscs
9) Die Todliche Doris - Tanz im Quadrat on Psychedelic Pig
10) MAS 2008 - Freaquency 99 on Electronic Corporation
11) In Trance 95 - Dance Another Fear on Minimal Wave
12) Bourbonese Qualk - Gag on Mannequin Records
13) Cat Rapes Dog - Schizophrenia on KK Records
14) Nurse With Wound - The Bottom Feeder on Dirter Promotions
15) Free PiecOf Tape - Thank you Jah(Skopelitis) on Phormix Tapes
16) Matthias Schuster -Ritual l on Konkurrenz
17) The Skull Defekts - Skull & Tongue on Important Records
18) Jasss - Es Complicado on Mannequin Records
19) Zarkoff x Cyborgs on Crack - Penalty For Violation on Return to Disorder
20) D.A.F - Der Rauber Und Der Prinz on Virgin
21) Puce Mary - Man on Posh Isolation
22) Sawf - Kotrones forthcoming on Vanila
23) Karl and the Curbcrawlers - Same Day on Death & Leisure
24) Delroy Edwards - Untitled on Death of Rave

The Brvtalist Premieres: AnD - "Resisting Authority"

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Manchester's AnD. The project of duo Andrew + Dimitri, AnD continues to push the limits of their sound and destroy confines. "Resisting Authority" is a heavy, mutant, Drum and Bass infused track that smashed us the first time we heard it. It comes off the 3x12", Social Decay, out later this month on Electric Deluxe. The individual records meld together to create a cinematic narrative that weaves between genres, sounds and moods. The release is a pensive look at the continuing conundrums of civilization, while also remaining critically topical.

Social Decay is out September 22nd, 2017 on Electric Deluxe in 3x12" and digital formats. For more and pre-orders visit Bandcamp.

-JRS

Andi - "Object Crucifix" Video Premiere

The Brvtalist is pleased to present a new video from New York City-baed producer/DJ/writer Andi. "Object Crucifix" comes off the newly release compilation, SYNTHICIDE, a great accompaniment to Andi's monthly event of the same name. The comp features other contemporary favorites like Homoagent, SARIN, Al Ferox and more. "Object Crucifix" is a noir-ish, synth gem infused with 80's minimal and industrial influences. The video by Jordan Passmore nicely captures the track's retro, ritual stylings.

SYNTHICIDE Compilation v1.0 is out now on vinyl format via Ready Made Distribution and will be out digitally September 7th, 2017 on Bandcamp. For more visit Facebook.

-JRS