Institutional racism, sexism, heteronormativity, ableism, ageism, and classism continue to exist within cultural work and beyond. By understanding the body as a flexible and mobile geography, “Antipodes: A Radical Body Geography” calls for an expanded understanding of structural asymmetry, the relationships between economic development, the recomposition of territories, and hybrid epistemologies. Because those who have left their countries of origin to settle in Austria have been able to challenge fixed ideas of territory, landscape, body, and knowledge, this project can develop this new understanding of geography from their experiences. The space temporarily occupied by the voices of migrant cultural workers in this installation underscores the importance of the work of the migrant creative community in Austria, which is often overlooked by institutions. The cultural workers Francesca Romana Audretsch, Aleksandra Czerniak, Marko Dinic, Barbora Horska, Asija Ismailovski, Eva Kovac, Zoltan Lesi, Michael Podgorac, Helen Weber, and Tsai-Ju Wu answered the following questions: Where is your center? How does forgetting take place in the West? What does the North taste like? How does one love in the Northeast? How does the Northwest sound? How does one work in the East? How does one die in the South? How does one rest in the Southwest? What does the Southeast smell like? How seriously do you take geography? If your body is a territory in itself, where is its antipode?

The illustrated responses were exhibited in the Secession garden and reinterpreted by KDM Koenigin der Macht.Photo: Ines Bacher, Manuela Picallo Gil and Oscar Cueto.