{"id":993717,"date":"2026-11-08T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/field-trip-by-the-mainz-subproject-to-matonge-brussels\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T23:18:00","slug":"field-trip-by-the-mainz-subproject-to-matonge-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/field-trip-by-the-mainz-subproject-to-matonge-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip by the Mainz Subproject to Matong\u00e9 (Brussels)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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From October 30 to November 2, 2026, the Mainz subproject undertook a field trip to the Matong\u00e9 neighborhood of Brussels, which\u2014more than any other place in Europe\u2014is characterized by a high concentration of the Congolese and Lingala-speaking diaspora. A primary goal of the trip was to connect with musicians from this scene and thereby gather fascinating and valuable perspectives on Congolese rumba and other aspects of the project. The itinerary also included a visit to the exhibition \u201cPostcolonial?\u201d at the House of European History, as well as to the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, which features, among other things, an impressive room dedicated to the history of Congolese rumba. In addition to engaging with the content of the topics presented and critically reflecting on Europe\u2019s colonial entanglements, the project team was particularly interested in how these aspects were conceptually implemented in the respective museums. This led to a number of insights and sources of inspiration for the project\u2019s own planned exhibitions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Lingala in the streets of Matong\u00e9: \"ZANDO YA MATONGE\" - Market of Matong\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Team meeting and discussion of the planned exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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The team from the Mainz subproject in Brussels<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Hauke Dorsch in his element as a music ethnologist at the AfricaMuseum Tervuren<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Congo Rumba in the exhibition \u201cPostcolonial?\u201d at the House of European History<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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From October 30 to November 2, 2026, the Mainz subproject undertook a field trip to the Matong\u00e9 neighborhood of Brussels, which\u2014more than any other place in Europe\u2014is characterized by a high concentration of the Congolese and Lingala-speaking diaspora. A primary goal of the trip was to connect with musicians from this scene and thereby gather…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":993613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[145,142,144,95,143,103],"class_list":["post-993717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities-en","tag-africamuseum-tervuren","tag-brussels","tag-field-trip","tag-lingala","tag-matonge","tag-rumba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993724,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993717\/revisions\/993724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kostima.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}