Being and Doing

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1984

Original language

English

Spoken languages

english, polish

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

Arts Council of Great Britain,Match Films,Match Films, Arts Council of Great Britain

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0975654