An old machine hall, it smells like wet moor. The men work in the hall. They operate computers and machines, they create the rhythm to which they dance. Women from the moor watch them, appear from the dark water and withdraw again. The women in the bog have portals that allow access to other worlds: to worlds where the men no longer set the pace, but are destroyed by women with dream mechanics.

When Katharina Haverich and her team began using an open call to look for interview partners who would like to talk about their aggressive dreams against men, a lot of aggression (from men) came back. One more reason to tighten the screws a little: in the electronic parts of the installation male rule ends. The artist draws on a self-created archive of real dreams of women in which they use violence against men. These are recreated hyper-realistically in virtual reality – the dreamed-of weapons and skills can be used by the visitors of the VR rooms and can destroy any man in these worlds.

With “…dreams about girls” Katharina Haverich constructs an open setting between two worlds. The possibility of creating immersive, self-determined and autonomous virtual worlds that do justice to something as intimate as dreams has only recently become possible. And: the visitors are given the active part here, because the change between the worlds takes place in a self-determined manner and at the end there is an invitation to manifest their own aggression on a man’s machine…