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Video, 2025
About the artwork
It is a video art project created for Song A by Rumina, a musician from the Amel label. Song A calmly starts off with a playful, pop-inspired melody, which later turns into a fever dream, weaving in distorted voices and pads. Are things like eating, shopping, or manic self-care routines ways to protect our sanity — or are they what actually drive us mad? Within the video sequence from birth to death, certain symbols and characters have been unified into a single whole. This character, which is one whole, was treated as if mad, but after a while, this attitude was abandoned and it was accepted that they were not mad.
Istanbul based record label Amel promote a non-sectarian approach to supporting creative work across genres in an era. Amel is a bridge between artists and audiences, a structure and support facility to ideas, projects and collaborations. Rumina is a producer, artist, and DJ based between Istanbul and Malmö, drawing inspiration from an eclectic mix of genres including deconstructed club, folk, punk, and dembow.
Sound design by Rumina
Audio explanation
Listen to Nohygiene discuss this work.
Nohygiene was born in 1994. He completed his master’s degree by studying G. Bataille. Nohygiene is an artist whose artworks are based on lack of emotion and eroticism. Currently, he is continuing his doctorate education in Anadolu University Department of Sculpture (2019- …) on the limits of form.