Being and Doing

Being and Doing

55 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1984

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.

Being and Doing

55 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1984

Being and Doing
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.
Producers Match Films, Arts Council of Great Britain
Original title Being and Doing
Directors Ken McMullen
Writers Stuart Brisley, Ken McMullen

Cast

Tibor Hajas

as archive footage

Rasa Todosijevic

as archive footage

Iain Robertson

as archive footage

Zbigniew Warpechowski

as archive footage

Milan Knizak

as archive footage

Ewa Partum

as archive footage

Jan Mlcoch

as archive footage

Sonia Knox

as archive footage

Jerzy Beres

as archive footage