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