I assembled this bibliographic analysis to bear witness to the groundbreaking sonic journey of MONTERO as a sacred Black geography, a speculative space for liberation, an innovative transmedia 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.
The #MonteroSyllabus aims to help students and fans of his growing body of work grapple adeptly with the pluriverse of meanings he unlocks in visual culture by asking: Where might his musical adventures take us? What spatial concepts and transhistorical sources would be helpful in unpacking each song’s visual register of futures?
Let me know what you think below or feel free to share the #MonteroSyllabus if you would take this class. :)
