Melting Barricades is a Greenlandic art project by artists Inuk Silis Høegh and Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, in the form of a recruitment campaign for a fictional Greenlandic army. The project ran from 2004 to 2007, but has now been re-actualized in an almost eerie way. Reflected in a new media landscape and an escalating geopolitical situation, the images, films and props in Melting Barricades relate to a new reality.

20 years ago, Melting Barricades reversed perspectives and explored an alternative reality, where a Greenlandic army intended to militarily invade Denmark and then the rest of the world. For Inuk Silis Høegh and Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, it was important to defend Greenlandic identity and culture in relation to a larger world. It was a public project that engaged the local community with relatively simple means. The idea was to communicate, spark debate and, by changing perspectives, shed light on issues of sovereignty, values ​​and Greenland’s colonial relationship with Denmark.

In collaboration with Nuuk Art Museum, Melting Barricades is now on display at Kalmar konstmuseum. The artists are being introduced for the first time in Sweden.