CACTUS PRESS 仙人掌印務部

 
cactuspressnl@gmail.com
Instagram:@howlingcactus_



A publishing collective formed by three women living between the Netherlands and the Chinese speaking world.


Cactus Press develops a hybrid practice that connects print media, sound, moving image,exhibition-making, and participatory performance. We are drawn to gestures of resistance that grow out of dryness and silence. For us, publishing is an attempt to speak again across different soils—a process of interpenetration and exchange that turns each book into a living hypertext. Each publication becomes a node that links to other forms and contexts, generating new relations that keep the practice open, porous, and alive.

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Uncoming Book Fair
  • Apr. 17-19 — London
    — Outland Publishing Fair


  • Past Events
  • 2026

    Jan. 10-31 — Changsha
    — Lailaihuihui
      Exhibition:Please Dance Happily and Freely
     

    Jan. 10-11 — Changsha
    — Lailaihuihui

      Dance Workshop

    Jan. 31 — Rotterdam
    Dokhuis Zinefair


    2025

    Dec. 6 — The Hague 
    — Nowhere Zine Island

    Dec. 6-8 — Bangkok
    — Book Fair

    Dec. 13 — Utrecht 
    — FOTODOK × Casco Book Fair

    Dec. 18 — Utrecht 
    — Basecamp

    Dec. 19-21 — Tokyo 
    — Tokyo Art Book Fair

  • Dec. 28 — Kunming
    — Used Good Fair












    1.All the dancer are one family
      天下麥舞一家親

    This project, initiated by artist Wang Xue Sophia, explores Meshrep (or Maiwu), a form of contemporary Chinese square dance, through field research and archival study.

    It includes two publications: The National Meshrep Square Dance Directory, a community-maintained guide listing dance
    groups and schedules nationwide, and The Meshrep Score, which traces the transformation of Meshrep from ritual to stage to public square using historical dance materials.

    “All the dancer are one family” is a slogan often shared among Meshrep dancer friends, perhaps expresses people’s longing for connection and collective movement.
    Cactus Press aims for these publications to act as a sustainable dancing guide, celebrating connection, friendship, and collective movement, while allowing Maiwu to continue generating new relationships and possibilities for shared dance.

    Artist: Wang Xue Sophia | Designer: Jasper Yi Cao








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