Collection of David and Rebecca Ayer
What can I say? I'm a pack rat. These remnants are mostly from boxes and filing cabinets packed and stored serially in the garages of a string of homes and storage units for the last twenty-something years. Many are in better condition than I would have predicted, considering the means of production and non-archival nature of the materials used. At least most were easy to scan, not as much work to convert or as big as audio files....
Please do take advantage of the wiki nature of this site and feel free to edit this page. Correct errors grammatical, factual, or of omission; in many cases I have had to rely on memory to infer dates, so help there is especially appreciated. Also add sections of your own, or links to images of your better or variant copies and other related materials if you have them.
— Dave
Works on paper
- Program, Ensemble Performance Series
- Plain paper copy
- November 1983
- Northern Illinois University, College of Visual and Performing Arts
- Commentary pending.
- Photo, Cathy Church Senior Recital
- Newsprint
- February 1984
- © 1984 The Daily Chronicle
- Need permission to publish this photo!
- I was photographed performing in the scored demolition of an old player piano during this guest appearance of the ensemble at Cathy Church's Senior Recital. Speculation followed about the impact of this photo on the NIU School of Visual and Performing Arts' reputation and fundraising programs after Daily Chronicle readers assumed we had destroyed school property. In fact, the piano was liberated from an Illinois barn and had to be cleansed of layers of straw and bird droppings before its final appearance.
- Poster, Selling Out
- Plain paper copy
- D A Ayer
- April 1984
- © 1984 the artist
- Sung to the tune of Puttin' On the Ritz, Robert(O) Mendel's lyrics ushered in the ensemble's answer to an Orwellian year in which we anticipated reelection and more misery for the state of education in America: clearly we were not going to make a living in the "fine" arts, so why not go commercial at the outset?
- Despite a DeKalb tradition of sacrificing cash for culture—a contemporary student show included artworks made from corners ripped from real US currency—and thanks to the miracle of self-service plain-paper copying, no actual dollar bills were harmed!
- Audio cassette label, DOGSWILL RAVE
- Plain paper copy on hand-cut card stock
- D A Ayer
- April 1984
- © 1984 the artist
- Commentary pending.
