Sacred Defense, embedded mainly in the post-war reality of the Iraq-Iran war, is a story of producing artificial war images. It traces existing modes of construction of fake war narrations and creates a new, war-related simulation in digitally amended satellite images of nuclear sites. These images make us believe we see the war. We are looking at illusions, however. We see how the war simulacra are being created within different spaces. A permanent film-set, constructed only for the purpose of shooting war movies. Museums mimic the wartime reality in the smallest detail; with wax figures of particular martyrs; and plastic replicas of antipersonnel mines sold as souvenirs. Amended satellite images of Iranian nuclear sites show mutually exclusive, parallel versions of destruction, caused by a hypothetical Western strike. Buildings destroyed in some images stand intact in others. Author is producing ‘proofs’ of an event that never happened, questioning the media discussion.

Sudan’s split, forced by China and USA, strongly impacts ecology and culture. North lost oil revenues and desperately looks for hydropower. Dams and lakes will occupy the only fertile agriculture belt along the Nile, causing resettlement of people, whose protests are bloodily suppressed. Government and farmers, who race for land before water floods, are joined by gold seekers and archaeologists. High gold prices attract many people, who transform desert into open pit mine. Archaeologists, attracted by a system allowing to take home part of excavated artifacts, are coming to rescue traces of past. They are seen as vanguard of the dam construction, their work triggers protests. All of them co-exist, but refer to different values and narrations. Archeologist look into the past to confirm their importance, farmers stick to present to keep the status quo, government and construction companies, awaits future to cash investment. The same space is viewed from different time dimensions.