The actor’s latest art project sees him stuck inside a lift for 24 hours with members of the public.
For his latest 'performance art' piece, actor Shia LaBeouf is currently occupying a lift in Oxford, with collaborators Nastja Rönkkö and Luke Turner. Titled #Elevate, the stunt is being streamed on Youtube ahead of the actor’s Oxford Union address later tonight (February 19th).
Shia LaBeouf is currently in an Oxford elevator.
LaBeouf began his stint in the elevator at EC English Oxford in Gloucester Green at 9am this morning and will continue it until 9am on Saturday. A live stream of the stunt will be broadcast inside the Oxford union debating chamber for the whole 24 hours and it is also available to watch on Youtube.
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“Visitors will be able to join LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner inside the elevator during this time, and are invited to address the artists, the debating chamber, and the internet, so that their collective voices may form an extended, expansive and egalitarian Oxford Union address,” the union said.
According to the BBC, LaBeouf told students in the lift that he was invited by the union’s president after his art piece last year which saw him set up a call center in a Liverpool art gallery for four days. “Stuart the president said ‘Do you want to stand in the same spot as Malcolm X?’ Who [...] am I to argue with that?” LaBeouf said.
Although best known for his roles in films including the Transformers series and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, LaBeouf has moved away from acting in recent years to focus on his performance art pieces.
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In 2014 the actor appeared at the Berlin Film Festival wearing a paper bag on his head with the words "I am not famous any more” written across it. Last November he participated in a stunt where he invited fans to join him as he watched all his movies back-to-back during a three day marathon at a New York theatre.
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