Dr.phil. Ruby Jana Sircar

I love pop culture and how it represents itself in diasporic public spaces, especially when it wears an anti-colonial face.Current favourite examples are Ms. Marvel and Master of None. Performance and language, sound and migration, capital and image are the basic building blocks of my artistic and scientific work: at the Academy of Fine Arts - whether as a teacher or works concil member -, on the board of IG Bildende Kunst and the Vereinigung Bildender Künstler:innen Österreich.

In my dissertation Liquid Homelands (Edition Schlebrügge, 2008), at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, I dealt with the role of women in the South Asian diaspora and how they are represented in popular music. As well as researching diasporic and feminist structures of everyday life during my fellowship at the Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht (2007), as research coordinator for Initiative Minderheiten for the project Good Luck! Migration Heute (Mandelbaum Verlag, 2011) or as a university assistant at the Institute for Contemporary Art, TU Graz. Each time I was fortunate to work in collective structures.

Sircar, Ruby (2021). »Röcke übers Knie, Häubchen ins Haar. Zur Bauchlandung des rechten Feminismus.« in: Gaugele, Elke, Held, Sarah (Eds.): Rechter Feminismus und Mode, Berlin, S. 156-173

Sircar, Ruby and Meisinger, Wolfgang (2019). »Giges Ring« in: Pruckermayr, Nicole (Eds.): COMRADE CONRADE. Demokratie und Frieden auf der Straße. Ein Kunst-, Forschungs- und Friedensprojekt in Graz 2016 – 2019; Vienna

Sircar, Ruby (2019). »Powerdress: Narendra Modi’s Fashion Politics«, in: Gaugele, Elke and Monica Titton (Eds.): Fashion and Postcolonial Critique, Berlin

Sircar, Ruby (2017). »Master of None.« in kolik: Fachzeitschrift für Film, Medien und Literatur, 27, Vienna

Erharter, Christiane; Scheirl, Ashley Hans; Schwärzler, Dietmar and Sircar, Ruby (Eds.) (2015): Pink Labor on Golden Streets. Queer Art Practices; Berlin

Bakondy, Vida; Ferfoglia, Simonetta; Jancovic, Jasmina; Kogoj, Cornelia; Ongan, Gamze; Pichler, Heinrich; Sircar, Ruby and Winter, Renee (Eds.) (2011). Viel Glück Migration Heute! Wien, Belgrad, Zagreb, Istanbul; Vienna

Irene, Lucas and Sircar, Ruby (2010). Mythemes. Vienna

Sircar, Ruby (2009). »Sita liebt Radha. Queerness auf der südasiatischen Leinwand«. in: Guth, Doris and Hammer, Heide (Eds.): Love me or leave me; Frankfurt/M

Sircar, Ruby (2008). »Bastelanleitung für Glokalismen« in: Sohns, Jan-Arne and Uttikal, Rüdiger (Eds.): Pädagogik der populär Kultur; Nuremberg

Sircar, Ruby (2008). »Liquid Homelands«. Vienna

Bartl, Angelika; Arzu Kececi, Leyla; Lucas, Irene; Penker, Elisabeth and Sircar, Ruby (Eds.) (2006). (Fem.) Additives, Stuttgart

Sircar, Ruby (2005). »Musik und Jugendprotest in Indien« in: Becker, Dr. Jörg (Ed.): Die schwierigen Kinder der Globalisierung: Musik als Jugendprotest; Düsseldorf

Sircar, Ruby (2004). »Firenghee und Aware« in: Becker, Dr. Jörg (Ed.): Bollywood im Globalisierungsstrudel; Düsseldorf

Sircar, Ruby (2002). »An-Sehen« in: Liebrand, Claudia and Schneider, Irmela (Ed.): Medien in den Medien, Cologne, S. 301-306