About the Project
Since 2007, New Acquisition has distributed nearly 5,000 pamphlets at public performances, bookstores, and art galleries around New York City.
Each pamphlet is filled with writing and art focused on themes drawn from early and contemporary American religious and political pamphlets. The group then creates performances and/or installations that act as a means for us to distribute the pamphlets to the general public (which are given away for free) and engage them in the ideas discussed in the pamphlets.
The primary goals of New Acquisition are 1) to encourage artists to react creatively to contemporary political and social debates; 2) to help wrestle literary and artistic work out of the ever-shrinking niche that it generally exists within; and 3) to expose the public to contemporary creative work by emerging female artists and writers via mass distribution of pamphlets—creative people who are currently under-represented in literary magazines, book publishing and art galleries.
Past performance venues include: Chashama, the One Million Forgotten Moments project, the 2008 New York Dance Parade, and FIGMENT 2008.
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