September 2026
Co-published with the Center for Experimental Lectures
Document Series #12
Edited by Zoey Kira Lubitz and Rachel Valinsky
Design by Priscila Clementti Collado
Softcover, 176 pages, 7.8 x 5.1 inches
ISBN: 979-8-9863375-1-7
Edition of 750
Printed in Latvia
22 USD
About the book
Across the ports, institutions, landscape, and city streets of the Netherlands and Barcelona, this new volume from Claudia Pagès Rabal collects the artist’s research and practice around what she has called “gerund violence.” Navigating scenes of alienation, solitude, stilted encounters, political organizing, outdoor raves, depositions, and unexpected camaraderies, Pagès writes a protagonist arrested in the circuitous grammars of a suspended verbal tense, in the fugue that defines life caught in the continuous present of choreography and surveillance.
With librettos, autofiction, videos, and drawings by Claudia Pagès Rabal, and a foreword by Zoey Kira Lubitz.
About the author
Claudia Pagès Rabal's practice spans writing, sculpture, choreography, and moving image, driven by a continuous exploration of the intersections among language, law, time, and territory. Pagès Rabal's work examines the complex histories of the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean, tracing how circulation systems such as trade routes, commercial networks, and legal documents carry, conceal, and sustain histories of power, violence, and erasure. Pagès Rabal's work has been exhibited at IMMA, Dublin (2026); Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (2026); mumok, Vienna (2025); Index, Stockholm (2025); Art Sonje, Seoul (2025); Chisenhale, London (2025); Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona (2025); IVAM, Valencia (2024); Sculpture Center, New York (2024); CA2M, Madrid (2023); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2023); Tabakalera, Donostia (2022); Vleeshal, Middelburg (2022); MACBA, Barcelona, (2022); CAPC, Bordeaux (2022); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (2021). Pagès Rabal has participated in Contour Biennale 11, Mechelen (2026); Istanbul Biennale 18th (2025); Biennale für Freiburg, Freiburg (2025); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024); March meetings at Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2018); and is representing Catalonia in Venice at the 61st Venice Biennale, Venice (2026). They published her hair (Onomatopee, 2020); Rats and Roaches (Jupiter Woods, Yaby, AC/E, 2020); and Arrela’t, nena, arrela’t (2019), and their writing has appeared in Pfeil Magazine, Interjection Calendar (Montez Press), The Contemporary Journal, and A*desk. Their first novel, Més de dues aigües, was published in Catalan by Empúries Narrativa in 2024. Pagès was awarded the Ojo Crítico Visual Arts Award in 2022, and has been an artist-in-residence at EMPAC, Troy (2025); Triangle France, Marseille (2020); and Gasworks, London (2017), among others.
About the Center for Experimental Lectures
The Center for Experimental Lectures, co-organized by Gordon Hall and Zoey Kira Lubitz, is an artists’ project based in New York that engages with the public lecture as form.