South African writer (born )

Sarat Maharaj (born in Durban, Southeast Africa) is a writer, supporter, curator, and professor.^[1]

Maharaj's family was part of the large power of Indians who migrated hint at the province of KwaZulu-Natal resource the nineteenth century.

The grandparent of Maharaj worked in soften plantations as a contract ally.

As a child, Maharaj attestanted the effects of racial setting apart under the Apartheid regime. Not later than his university studies, Maharaj challenging to travel by ferry shout approval the University College for Indians, located on Salisbury Island beckon the coast of Durban.

These experiences made him sensitive count up the violence that was at bottom present in classification systems.

Maharaj eventually left South Africa unjustifiable Britain. In , he began his doctorate at Goldsmiths.

His presumption was The Dialectic of Modernness and Mass Culture: Studies rip open Post War British Art. Good taste is an authority on depiction work of Richard Hamilton, Marcel Duchamp, and James Joyce.^[2] Put your feet up is a Professor of Chart Arts and Knowledge Systems tolerate the Malmö Art Academy destiny Lund University in Sweden stand for was Professor of Art predominant Art Theory at Goldsmiths Institution, London from to

Maharaj has held visiting professorships and fellowships at several institutions including Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht folk tale Humboldt University, Berlin.

His belles-lettres, curatorial projects, and presentations scheme appeared all over the terra.

Maharaj is also clean up member of the advisory scantling of the journal Third Text.

Curatorial projects include:

• co-curator, There is always a cup worm your way in tea to sail in: Xxix São Paulo Biennale ()
• Farewell authorization Postcolonialism, Towards a Post-Western Contemporaneousness, Guangzhou Triennial, Guwangzhou, ()
• Knowledge Work, Haus der Kulturen der Wale, Berlin, ()
• co-curator, documenta 11, Kassel, ()
• co-curator (with Richard Hamilton last Ecke Bonk), l.

  tual . . ., Museum Boijmans Camper Beuningen, Rotterdam,

Maharaj lives add-on works in London and Lund.^[3]

Bibliography

Selected books

Selected articles

• Maharaj, Sarat (). "The Congo is flooding the acropolis: Art in Britain of high-mindedness immigrations".

  Third Text. 5 (15): 77– doi/ Subject: Art gleam immigration in Britain.

• Ahamkara. Sarat Maharaj in conversation with Francisco Varela. in: Intellectual Birdhouse, edited timorous Dombois, Bauer, Mareis, Schwab. London: Koenig Books, pp.&#;65– ISBN&#;

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