Aesthetic Relations Conference, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

20-22 Jan 2021 

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Marta Padovan-Özdemir, Nadia Mansour, Aysha Amin, and Alexander Muchenberger presented on ‘Welfare Aesthetics in the ‘Ghetto’: a scientific-aesthetic montage of sound, visuals and critical perspectives on the homed regulation of racialized migrant bodies.’ The paper presented an experimental montage of the aesthetic relations unfolding in a collaborative of the art platform Andromeda 8220 based in Gellerup Aarhus and the research project, Making it home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration.

The paper aimed to create a space of testimony, critique, interference, and intervention (Andersen, Aparna, and Sandberg 2019:7) that contributed a baroque knowledge and critique (Law and Ruppert 2016) of the welfare aesthetics governing social housing areas on the ‘ghetto-list’. Accordingly, they explored how ideas of the good life are inscribed into social housing planning – and how immigrant lives are perceived particularly precarious in the state’s orchestration of welfare.