[M] Sarat Maharaj
[float=right][attach]1096[/attach][/float]萨拉·马哈拉吉（Sarat Maharaj），印度裔，生于南非。伦敦大学歌德史密斯学院教授，瑞典隆德大学教授，同时还担任柏林洪堡大学的首位鲁道夫·阿恩海姆教授（Rudolf Arnheim Professor）、荷兰扬·凡·艾克学院的高级研究员。马哈拉吉是文化研究领域举足轻重的学者，他与斯图加特·霍尔共同创办的国际视觉艺术协会(INIVA)对于近年来的文化理论和视觉思考产生了巨大的影响。近年来，马哈拉吉的策展活动包括：担任2002年第11届卡塞尔文献展的联合策展人；2002年，在鹿特丹策划题为 “视网膜、光学、视觉、概念……”学术展览；2005年策划柏林世界文化宫的“认知实验室”计划；2006年策划“柏林/慕尼黑”视觉研究系列计划。他还担任《第三文本》和《视觉文化》等国际重要学刊的学术顾问，他的策展与写作对国际当代艺术产生了广泛而深刻的影响。其出版的著作包括《审问认同》以及《现代性及其差异》)。今年，马哈拉吉还将出版两部重要专著：《行进：思想-言说-写作过程中的实验》以及《言语的争斗：汉密尔顿、杜尚和乔伊斯》。
Sarat Maharaj was born in South Africa and educated in one of the segregated universities during the Apartheid era. He is a research professor at Goldsmiths’ College in London and is currently professor of Visual Art and Knowledge Systems in Lund, Sweden. He was the first Rudolf Arnheim Professor at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Research Fellow at Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht. His art historical work centres on Richard Hamilton, Marcel Duchamp, and James Joyce. His research covers cultural translation and difference, textiles, sonics, and visual art as knowledge production. Since 1980s, Sarat Maharaj has lectured and published throughout the world on cultural translation and difference. He is a theoretical armoury of contemporary curatorial practices. He was co-curator of Documenta 11, 2002. With Ecke Bonk and Richard Hamilton, he curated retinal.optical.visual.conceptual… at the Boijmanns, Rotterdam, 2002. He is curator of the Knowledge Lab (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), 2005 and Berlin/Munich 2006, as well as sound/image/movement experiments with Liu Sola (Beijing/NY) and Kofi Koko (Benin/Paris). Maharaj’s publications include Works in Progress: Experiments in Think-speak-write Sequences 1 (INIVA) and A Strife of Tongues: Richard Hamilton/Marcel Duchamp/James Joyce (Typosophic Society). Maharaj's theoretical competence, combined with his willingness to bring the concepts of cultural, diversity and difference to a more public forum, makes him a key intellectual voice on the Continent today.
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