Edition At least they didn’t paint it with their menstrual blood of the publication Repost – Circuit Flow

The bath-towel edition of the publication Repost – Circuit Flow looks at the countless hate comments that were posted online as part of the international shitstorm against the Circuit Flow art-in-architecture project in the new changing rooms building of Tössfeld Winterthur football club. It quickly shifted the discussion away from the work itself, instead focussing on the artists involved, Stefanie Kägi und Maureen Kägi. Many of the comments aimed to denigrate the female body together with its biological processes, in an attempt to embed these within a rigid framework made up of hierarchy, shame and guilt. While modern training concepts in top-level sport today naturally take the menstrual cycle into consideration, it is still considered taboo in everyday life, and is instrumentalised in attempts to stabilise patriarchal power structures. Bath towels are transitional objects that mark the boundary between intimacy and public life. The printed quotation turns a private statement into a political one.