For us, an image has always been connected to beauty, showing the scars of its own making. It used to be a negotiation with time, material, failure, chance. This image negotiation is now happening without us, so we are interested in understanding the unspoken labour of the Internet, the people maintaining it and how to survive against its systems.
Too often, Southeast Asia, its people, and its diverse diasporic perspectives are welcomed as contributions, rarely as the ones doing the theorising. Comfort Room exists to close that gap. We want to hold new ideas in a world that keeps trying to flatten us, and ask what is still worth imagining (or flushing).