zug press is an artist collective focused on independent publishing founded by Zhu Gaocanyue and Zuya Yang and based in Brooklyn, NY and Hong Kong.

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Past Events

June 29, 2026 | Berlin

Counterflows: Diaspora, Desire, and Publishing



June 26-28, 2026 | Berlin

MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival 2026


2-2:45PM, June 28, 2026 | Berlin

Book Talk / Follow the Tidal: Independent Photobook Publishing Across Asia and Beyond



May 7-10, 2026 | Los Angeles

Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair



May 6, 2026 | Los Angeles

Plot 田



April 25-26, 2026 | Brooklyn

Other islands Book Fair



April 10, 2026 | Providence

𝙏𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 1: 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚
Photography as Engagement




March 21, 2026 | Boston

Multiple Formats Art Book Fair

March 7, 2026 | New York

Tidal Issue 1: Shoreline Book Launch



December 13-15, 2025 | New York

Press Play, Pioneer Works



November 14-16, 2025 | Seoul, Korea

Unlimited Edition 17 - Seoul Art Book Fair 2025



October 11, 2025 | New York

New York Queer Zine Fair



October 2-5, 2025 | New York

ICP Photo Book Fest 2025



April 26-27, 2025 | New York

Other Islands Book Fair (Pratt)



April 5, 2025

Unbound Art Book Fair (RISD) | Rhode Island



Feb 21—23, 2025


 ✾ Jersey Art Book Fair 2025 | New Jersey



February 1-2, 2025

 ✾ Land to Sea, Lunar New Year Market | New York



December 19, 2024
 ✾ The International Center of Photography, Free Third Thursday x Late Night ICP Holiday Market, at Chinatown Basketball Club’s table | New York



December 7–8, 2024


✾ Pioneer Works, Press Play | New York



October 19, 2024

✾ The International Center of Photography (ICP), Nifty Fifty, at Chinatown Basketball Club’s table | New York



October 19–20, 2024


 ✾ 9th Singapore International Photography Festival, Photo Market | New York



October 13, 2024
 ✾ CBC 3x3 Autumn Classic Tournament Mini Market | New York







Tragōidia
Tragōidia, a word that is commonly understood as the root of “tragedy,” is often translated as “goat song.” Its exact origin remains uncertain, yet the word is closely tied to ancient Greek performances and choral rituals connected to Dionysus, the god of wine, ecstasy, and collective intoxication. From these songs, ceremonies, and staged acts, tragedy gradually emerged as a dramatic form.

In Tragōidia, the artist creates a psychic sequence of black-and-white images: a bodily, ecstatic, almost animal departure from the order of ordinary life; an inner carnival hidden behind reality; a memory continuously rewritten, distorted, and beautified.

Following zug press’s sold-out handmade editions of Dreaming of Being a Butterfly which were made through risograph and several printmaking processes, Tragōidia continues a related visual and emotional world as an offset-printed edition.

The goat and the butterfly appear as symbols of the artist’s mental transition during a particular period of time: a state of dreaming and imagining, accompanied by sadness and isolation. It is an in-between moment, suspended in transformation.

ISBN: 979-8-9938566-2-9

Artist: Zhu Gaocanyue
Designer: Zuya Yang

First edition of 200 copies