A Case for Rooting California Forever’s City Planning in Regional History, Resilience, and Imagination.
Read here: https://dr-matt.medium.com/what-if-the-city-of-yesterday-loved-yay-area-urbanism-f9054db96386
Afrofuturism
“In life, we hide the parts of ourselves that we don’t want them to see.
We lock them away.
We tell them ‘No.’
We banish them.
But here…we don’t.
Welcome to Montero.”
The MONTERO Syllabus: Infinite Worlds of Queer Afrofuturism by Dr. Matt
in teaching, visual art
This bibliography bears witness to the groundbreaking sonic journey of MONTERO as a sacred geography, a speculative space for liberation, an innovative incursion into the cultural zeitgeist of “genre” that would traditionally marginalize queer Afrofuturist voices. It connects the expansive spatial imaginary of the already-prolific emerging artist Montero Lamar Hill, known as “Lil Nas X” (LNX), to geographies of architectural and design thought – fashion, folklore, myth, fantasy, fiction, filmic production, archaeology, land policy. It aims to help students and fans of his growing body of work grapple adeptly with the pluriverse of meanings he unlocks in visual culture, asking: Where do his musical adventures take us? What spatial concepts and transhistorical sources would be helpful in unpacking each song’s visual register? #MonteroSyllabus
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