“We spend a third of our life asleep (and thus dreaming): what is there that is more real than dreams?”
- Andrei Tarkovsky
The Dream Archives is a multi-disciplinary art project surrounding dreams and sleep.
It was created by Johannes Harder and took place from 2023 to 2025.
It consists of the following parts.
2 EPs.
8 songs in total, written by Johannes Harder & produced by Sasha Bowers in Berlin and Guadalupe (Spain).
ODRADEK. Waters. Only In Dreams (I Can Hide). Green Ashes. (All My Body Is) Hope. Saw You In A Dream. I’m Sure You Still Dream Of Me. Chemistry Class.
The Dream Diary.
Dreams and song lyrics, illustrated by Myra Amneskog.
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The Sleep Streams.
3 livestreams that took place on Instagram. The public could watch Johannes Harder fall asleep in real time.
EP Release Show and Sleep Performance.
The EP Release show for the ‘With Your Eyes Wide Open’ EP took place on 18th May 2025 at Donau115 in Berlin.
It was prefaced by a 2-hour sleep performance in the venue.
Photos by Jeremy John.
T-Shirts
Design by Myra Amneskog.
Photos by Adrien Bossa.
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Johannes Harder’s dreams.
A selection of dreams from the artist’s dream diary.
The Climber
24/01/2021
At Peace with the World
30/12/2020
Collective Dreaming
16/09/2020
The Country House
03/11/2019
At the Movies
06/02/2021
Thanks, Kids!
05/02/2021
Brandon Kermit
10/05/2021
The Supermarket
23/05/2021
Drawings by BB Hill-Cai.
The Sleep Tapes.
8 audio recordings of Johannes Harder falling asleep in 2023.
+ an essay by Brian Strauss on the cultural importance of the Sleep Tapes.
Sleep Tape 01 - 09/11/2023
Sleep Tape 02 - 10/11/2023
Sleep Tape 03 - 11/11/2023
Sleep Tape 04 - 12/11/2023
Sleep Tape 05 - 13/11/2023
Sleep Tape 06 - 14/11/2023
Sleep Tape 07 - 15/11/2023
Sleep Tape 08 - 16/11/2023
Essay: Sleeping as an act of revolution. By Brian Strauss (2019).
Media Coverage.
(Featured at 27:25)
“An ardent fan of Harder's style and musical gifts, he has been developing as an artist and seems to be broadening his craft. Maybe his gift has, in the beginning, been wrapped in paper, now maybe wrapped in ornate gift wrapping paper. Either way, at it's core, Harder's sound feels seeded with the same kind of D.N.A as an Elliot Smith and The Cure and even early The Smiths. You may think of other seeds as you listen but key, in my mind, is a beautifully vocal countenance, sort of aloof and melancholy, sort of intimate yet vast, and a songwriting prowess that has a sense of musical history (to my ears) coming straight through from dance hall music, indie rock, folk indie (and emo folk), proto punk and post punk. I can hear threads of all of it within half of a rainbow's conceptual sound and emotional plays.”
- Robb Donker Curtis (American Pancake)