Crazy Fish Sing

Crazy Fish Sing is a visual art book inspired by Suranga Katugampala’s film Still Here. Situated in an experimental territory on the border between noir and documentary, the film is shot in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Milan, Italy. Transporting the reader through its real, imagined, and affective geographies, Crazy Fish Sing offers a unique behind-the-scenes perspective on the making of Still Here and the questions this film raises about cultural hybridity, urbanization, and realism.

Publisher: Yogurt Editions

Hard cover

228 pag

24,5 x 17,5 cm

Curator: S. Brioni

Book Design: Yogurt Agency

Art Director: F. Rombaldi

Graphic Design: M. Pallini

Translators: G. Bellesia Contuzzi, V. Offredi Poletto

Illustrators: M. Bertani, P. Hettiarachchi

Photographers: F. Allocca, S. Katugampala, M. Ronga, D. Spinazzola

Contributors: S. Katugampala, P. Benzi, M. Bertani, M. Binci, E. Bond, G. Chiscuzzu, f. dubosc, D. Duncan, A. Kodagoda, F. Pedroni, I. Perniola, L. Polezzi, P. Tennakoon

The project is made possible thanks to the support of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture within the framework of the Italian Council (12th edition, 2023), the program for the international promotion of Italian contemporary art.

Promoted by Terzo Paesaggio

In collaboration with Kaiya Collective, 5e6film, Fondazione Pianoterra, Stony Brook University

Read my introduction on the Shanghai Literary Review

Longlisted for the 2025 Moving Image Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards. R

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Prasad Hettiarachchi’s exhibition They Came From the North at CARME, Brescia, was presented alongside the book Crazy Fish Sing, which features his work. Photograph by Vincenzo Pagliuca.

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