Sweet Dreams are Made of This... is an accessible and usable audio-video installation whose core is comprised of the sound- and picture archive Personal Abstracts. Personal Abstracts began in the summer of 2001 as an atelier lounge in the form of an events-series conceived by Jan Rohlf and Maverick. The installation consists of especially arranged furniture modules which hold the mobile lounge installation in a kind of limbo between more sober, cool clarity and comfortable, relaxed proximity: the soberness offers the necessary distance for a concentrated, attentive occupation with the sound- and picture archive; the relaxation helps to approach the personal stories which are told within the documents.

The main item for the visitor is the CD-listening module, an audio/monitor station for playing back the documentation of the Personal Abstracts project. Guests, invited by the artists, presented their private disk collection and commented on their genesis in interviews. From this there has emerged collection of private music archives paired with personal experiences and confrontations with individual music histories. By means of the documents (portrait photos, interview CDs, CDs with songs played and playlists) the identity-endowing and formative influence of music is continually pursued.

Visitors move independently within the installation, take a place on the seat modules, and listen to the intimate testimonies of the disk collections inside. With the category-generator module users can generate out of 400 musical genre terms several new sub-groups for every push of a button at a small monitor.

The monitor module was used during the Personal Abstracts meetings as a data-input station; it now serves as a database for audio files and retrievable information. The dj module was likewise designed for the Personal Abstracts events. At present the music furniture, in a similar way to the supply module – initially installed to enable the visitors to lounge around and to supply them with drinks – functions in a quiescent state as part of the documentation.

Jan Rohlf born 1975 and Maverick, born 1964, are closely connected with Berlin clubs and media art life in Berlin. Rohlf conceived the club transmediale (1999), initiated hybridraum (1997-1998), took part in performances and exhibitions in Berlin a.o. WMF, Volksbühne, Kunst Ruimte, galerie wieland, Akademie der Künste. Festivals: Media Art Festival Osnabrück 2000, Exit Art Festival Creteil/Paris 2001 and Berlin Beta 2.0. Maverick has shown his work since 1998 in project spaces and galleries such as Berlin Galerie, berlintokyo, club transmediale, galerie wieland. Their installation was e.g. part of the novalog Berlin/Tel Aviv 2001 exhibition