The actor is asking asking members of the public to phone him and "touch his soul” over the next four days.
For Shia LaBeouf’s latest piece of performance art the actor is turning Liverpool’s Fact gallery into a call centre, along with artists Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner. The trio are inviting members of the public to call them up and ‘touch their souls’ between 11:00 and 18:00 GMT from Thursday to Sunday and the event will also be live streamed on Touchmysoul.net.
Shia LaBeouf is taking your calls at Liverpool’s Fact gallery.
The event is part of the group exhibition Follow, which will run at the Fact gallery from December till February 2015. The description on the Follow website asks: ‘In a world where we use Instagram ‘likes’ and YouTube views to assess who and what is important, and fame is just a click away, what impact is the internet really having on how we think about ourselves and those around us?’
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While LaBeouf is best known for starring in films such as the Transformers series and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in recent years he has garnered more attention for his ‘performance art’ pieces and various headline-grabbing stunts.
In 2014 the actor appeared a the Berlin Film Festival wearing a paper bag on his head with the words "I am not famous any more” written across it. Last month 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.
Speaking The Guardian about why he’s switched to performance art LaBeouf said: “Why does a goat jump? There’s an animalistic urge to express love that I can’t express in film. I felt limited after coming out of Transformers. Or all the stuff I’d done with Steven Spielberg, not to pooh-pooh those films, but you have no creative control.”
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“The guys I always looked up to - Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Penn - I loved the myths I heard about how their performances were created,” LaBeouf added. “I thought, ‘Oh man, it would be great if you could see the process, you’d enjoy the performance a bit more’. That’s why I turned to performance art, because it’s just about the process. It’s all aired out.”
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