Sumugan Sivanesan is a writer, researcher and artist. Between 2013 and 2018 he collaborated with the then Tamil refugee and controversial media figure Sanjeev ‘Alex’ Kuhendrarajah on a series of texts and artworks gathered under the banner Alex & I. While on residency at the Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2014 he began a micro-publishing project, Theoretically Tamil, a reference to the ‘little Tamil magazines’ which disseminated new ideas about art and politics in the Tamil speaking world in the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Malaysia and raised in Australia, Sumugan currently lives in Berlin.