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SIBMAS Conference August 25th to 29th 2008 Capturing the Essence of Performance: The Challenge of Intangible HeritageConference Venue The venue for the 2008 SIBMAS conference will be Scotland’s leading conservatoire, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Central Glasgow. Conference Theme The SIBMAS 2008 conference programme will focus on how effectively a live activity such as performance can be documented using a variety of both traditional and more innovative methods. Live performance is a subject area in which the process of creating a production is as of much if not of more interest to researchers than the end product itself. But how practicable is it to invade the artist’s workshop or rehearsal process? Performance is a subject area which focuses on a physical activity, not on a static artefact. Representing that activity with static objects alone provides a partial record but not a wholly satisfactory one. Using performance recordings, oral testimony and other techniques to reconstruct the experience of a performance are crucial to explaining past performance. The 2008 SIBMAS conference will encourage debate on the most effective methods for recording and preserving performance. Conference Registration Pre-publicity and registration details will be published in January 2008.
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