Being and Doing

Release Date: 1984-01-01

Overview: About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different performance artists from England and abroad collected from 1979 to 1983, amongst them: Tibor Hajas (Hungary), Rasa Todosijevic (Yugoslavia), Iain Robertson (Scotland), Zbigniew Warpechowski (Poland), Milan Knizak (Czechoslovakia), Natalia LL (Poland), Ewa Partum (Poland), Jan Mlcoch (Czechoslovakia), Sonia Knox (Northern Ireland), Jerzy Beres (Poland) and Stuart Brisley (England). The film also records the Haxey Hood and Padstow Hobbyhorse folk dances from Lincolnshire and Cornwall respectively.

Rating: 0 / 10

Cast

Tibor Hajas

as archive footage

Rasa Todosijevic

as archive footage

Iain Robertson

as archive footage

Zbigniew Warpechowski

as archive footage

Milan Knížák

as archive footage