Seeking volunteers - recruiting "guinea pig" students for Performance Art workshops .......

An Invitation to Participate in the Development of a New Performance Art Curriculum.

HELP! …. I need a group of willing victims for my MFA experiment!

Who: 
Claire Elizabeth Barratt – performance artist & candidate for an MFA in Creative Practice through the Transart Institute.

What: 

For my MFA project, I am developing a pedagogy for the practice of Performance Art to be integrated into a comprehensive teaching curriculum.

How: 

To begin this process, I need to establish a series of workshop sessions in which my methods can be explored within a synergetic environment.

Why: 

As this creative practice is pedagogical, it cannot be developed in isolation but depends upon the responses of students for continuous assessment.

Here is some more information about the components of this project:

About me - http://cebhomepage.blogspot.com/ 
Claire Elizabeth Barratt is an inter-disciplinary artist with a performing arts background. She is the director of “Cilla Vee Life Arts” – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media collaboration. Her work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance, music, text, media, visual and installation art. 

About Transart - http://www.transart.org/ 
Transart Institute is a student-centered postgraduate art program, which fosters independent thinking, risk-taking and the creation of an informed and sustainable art praxis.
Academic programming is managed and delivered by Transart Institute (TI) in partnership with the School of Art & Media in the Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University (PU), UK. The program operates within the Plymouth University’s standard regulations for postgraduate programs: 
About the MFA program -
Transart Institute offers an international, low-residency MFA program for working artists in a highly individualized format.
Students create their own course of study realizing individual art and research projects with the support of faculty and artist studio advisors.
There are annual intensive residencies in Berlin and New York. 

About this project - http://transartcebtransart.blogspot.com/2014/08/further-developments-on-first-year.html 
“The Process and Praxis of Constructing the Self as Medium”
a practical pedagogy for the practice of Performance Art 

To develop a pedagogy in which my methods of training, preparation and execution can be integrated into a curriculum for the practice of Performance Art. 
Acceptance letter from TI - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4cHBYnXHpXzT1ZsUjVubVpoQVU/edit?usp=sharing

How I propose to engage volunteers: 

I will ask volunteers to commit to minimum of twelve hours workshop time (to be divided into weekly sessions or one intensive weekend)

I will guide participants through a series of physical & creative exercises while receiving continuous feedback about their experiences.

I will follow through with further exploration based on these discussions.

Our goal is to formulate effective methods of accessing the body’s potential for creative engagement as well as the mind’s capacity for innovation.

We will look at key figures in the history of performance art & discuss their work.
I want to create a dialogue with students about what they find most notable, interesting, relevant, inspiring about these artists.

Participants will be given assignments with a view to creating their own work.
We will review this process and develop constructive modes of exchanging ideas to further the work-in-progress.
An opportunity to present these works will be provided. 

This study has received approval through a PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY APPLICATION FOR ETHICAL APPROVAL OF RESEARCH or PROJECTS INVOLVING HUMAN PARTICIPANTS: For Students on BA, MA, MFA and MRes Programmes. 
Workshop participants will be asked to sign an agreement to include:
An understanding of the goals of the project.
A willingness to participate.
The right to withdraw.
An agreement to a strict code of safety ethics.
A specific of which conditions confidentiality is requested or consent is given
(eg. The use of name, quotes, image etc)