room2
Patrick Hase & Anuraag Bhatia
Before comments replaced conversations and bubbles hardened around our virtual selves, curiosity carried us to places where the unexpected still lived online. Moving from platform-dominated internet spaces to imagine alternative modes of communication, gathering and art, room2 invites audiences to chart their own route through the digital forest.
room2 is a suite of hybrid in-person and online digital performance spaces that encourage reflection and sharing, which collectively seek to shift users into a slower, more reflective way of engaging with sound, listening and online art experiences. With newly commissioned sound, visual and written commissions, Anuraag Bhatia and Patrick Hase bring their backgrounds in digital media, DJing and curation – and the attention towards care and safety in these spaces – to room2.fm for BLEED.
room2 was born from Anuraag and Hase’s shared experiences of the transformative power of non-commercial digital spaces in the internet’s early days, and a desire to create a digital space for collective reflection.
For this incarnation of BLEED, Anuraag and Hase have invited some of the most interesting artists working in the field of sound and online art today. With contributions from Yuin musician E Fishpool, game developer Mohamed Chamas and interdisciplinary artist Tahlia Palmer among others.
room2 is a contemplative journey undertaken together.