08/28/2026
“Why we fight” was made in 2004 by Greenlandic artist Inuk Silis Høegh and a Danish artist Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen in response to the 300+ year relationship between their two countries. (Here’s a two-sentence history: Denmark ruled Greenland as a colony from 1721 to 1953. Today Greenland has chosen to remain the in Danish Realm.) As you can expect it is a complicated history with many vantages, opinions, and retellings. Although this work is 20 years old and made in reaction to a different potential adversary the work is equally apt today with the political rhetoric coming out of Washington.
A beautiful, hysterical, and too real video of political satire that uses propaganda as an aesthetic, “Why we fight” on view in BLIZZARD, is also currently on view in the collection hang at the Nuuk Art Museum in Greenland.
Bringing this video to an American audience in 2026 helps shifts the assumed invader with Trump’s loud “taking over Greenland” talk. Inuk Silis Høegh and Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen created a new map to hang alongside the video for BLIZZARD.
Asmund Havsteen - Mikkelsen
Today (August 28th) is the last day to visit the BLIZZARD at DIMIN!
Artists featured: Sarah Anderson, Ohan Breiding, Lauren Cohen, Jessie Edelman, Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Inuk Silis Høegh, Caroline Larsen, Elena Redmond, Peter Schenck, Brett Stano, Deborah Wasserman
