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This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. Kinshasa was the epicenter of the Authenticity era, and parts of the city bear its aesthetic and planning principles. As seen in the work of the academy artists of the previous chapter, Authenticity was primarily an urban phenomenon. This saw Kinshasa, with its towering new constructions, dominating as a cultural force.
The large-scale urban forms commissioned to house state exhibitions, media, concerts, and museums all share a bombastic quality. Mass uprisings started in January in the capital, where the Congolese residents were largely unregulated and nascent political parties operated, catalyzing the move toward political independence. Approximately 70 percent of its residents are not formally employed, and informal systems dominate.
As the flow of people and congestion arriving in Kinshasa thickens, there have been no consolidated, official solutions to sustain the rising population. Resultingly, largely unchecked networks of living and working arrangements overflow the city around, and sometimes in the shadow of, Authenticity-era constructions. All state sites from the Authenticity period, roughly from the later s to the mids, loom large in the pockets of cityscape they occupy. This situation would last until the regime change in , outside of more sporadic sites and plans from foreign enterprises, most prominently French and Chinese companies see Beeckmans ; Beeckmans and Lagae If the country is a giantβapproximately the size of western Europeβit encapsulates a colossus of a capital city.
It is these sites, some of which are pieces of never-realized, city-encompassing plans, that I explore in the final chapter of this book. My focus is on sites that pick up on key themes of enclosure and othering that have been discussed throughout this book. I have also sought to engage with constructions that feature or once featured the modernist artworks introduced in chapter 4.
Like the colonial Art Nouveau edifices in Brussels I have analyzed, these sites are popularly understood as iconic modernist landmarks that mark the era of their creation and its spirit.