The research project aims to study how publicly funded artistic practices relate to contemporary urban governance in the city of Malmö. By developing an innovative research design based on Actor-Network Theory and Governmentality Studies, the project aims to empirically map the lines of association between the various actor-networks that make up the publicly funded art-world of Malmö. By doing this, we aim to investigate the role of artistic practices in the establishment of specific technologies of government. Thus, this approach will address the relationship between art and governmentalization on both theoretical and practical levels. By tracing how a local site of artistic practice connects to other sites through vehicles and conduits (carrying documents, materials, people, ideas, concepts, etc.), it will be possible to discover whether actor-networks solidify certain relations of power in ways that affect movements and identities in the social world. We will thereby be able to investigate the actor-networks of the art world that are actively included in city governance in Malmö as well as the technologies of government that this inclusion creates and mandates. The project will also be a contribution to the study of the changing role of art in contemporary society.