As the old saying goes, you can lead a Shia Labeouf to an elevator, but you can’t make him get inside with a group of strangers and livestream the results for 24 hours for the world to see.
JUST KIDDING GUYS, YOU TOTALLY CAN, AND IT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
As part of a performance art piece in Oxford, old mate has positioned himself and his artistic collaborators Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner inside a stationary elevator for 24 hours, and are live streaming it on YouTube.
The piece, called #ELEVATE, aims to make the Shia LaBeouf experience as egalitarian as possible. For the 24 hours it’s running, strangers are invited to line up, for the chance to spend a few minutes asking him anything they want.
Topics broached so far include what animal Shia would be, and what his parents think of his art, although we’ve been tuned in for an hour or so, and have mostly just heard a lot of giggling from behind the closed elevator doors.
The performance runs until 9am local time, so you still have a few more hours to tune in here if you wish.
This latest Shia experience follows on from the time he livestreamed the emotional experience of watching his own movies, and the time he let people chat to him in a call centre.
What even is art, bro?
Source: Variety.
