I abandoned the toilet idea for a few reasons (difficulty to transfer print onto, used toilet grossness, non-historical toilet, etc) and now I'm leaning towards large wooden found objects like a door or a chair (or both! or something else). I really want to use the wintergreen transfer method and I think it'll work very well on these wooden surfaces. My plan is to go to the Restore store sometime between now and Wednesday morning and take pictures of objects (or purchase them if I find things I like and really want to work with). I think the door would be effective in conveying the Dada ideas because it is something that could feasibly be seen by large numbers of people and others could post ideas onto it (nailing pieces of paper on, painting on it, etc--other things I want to consider doing). Right now I've been laying out the manifesto and highlighting/emphasizing bits that I want to do certain things with in the layout, and also looking for period images for use in collaging.
The manifesto itself is both interesting and frustratingly complicated at the same time. I found myself falling into a pattern of which parts of the text I chose to emphasize, but the whole piece is so emphatic and strongly-worded that it's hard to tell if the Dadaists would have agreed with all of my emphasis or not! I plan to lay out the text based around these strong words/phrases, which will be larger and bolder (and possibly in color, I haven't decided on that yet). I'll definitely be using a number of different typefaces from the period and trying to use them to guide the reading of the manifesto (light vs bold vs delicate vs emphatic, etc). I can already tell this project is going to be a challenge...
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