Watch Shia LaBeouf's Latest Performance Art: He's Riding in an Elevator for 24 Hours
A few months ago, Shia LaBeouf spent three days watching a marathon of all of his films in New York City as part of a performance art piece called #AllMyMovies. Our own Lucas Lowman spent a shocking 10 hours watching LaBeouf watch his own films, and wrote about the experience right here.
LaBeouf's latest piece of performance art is happening right now: from 9am this morning to 9am tomorrow morning (GMT), the actor and his collaborators Luke Turner and Nastja Säde Rönkkö are staying in an elevator at Oxford University in England, and just speaking with whoever comes in. It's just an open flow of conversation, and you can tune in and listen in the player below.
Over the past few minutes, he spoke about how they decided against a traditional speaking engagement at the campus; instead of standing on high and speaking to the students there (a method he called "outdated"), LaBeouf said he wanted to make it a more intimate discussion, so he opened the floor up to everyone by using the elevator as a place of discussion. He spoke about how he keeps in touch with the dude who played Beans from Even Stevens. And then he just spent five minutes talking about how he spent the first twelve years of his life literally crapping himself in public schools (after he was finished telling the story, he asked the people in the elevator with him: "Do you got anything that vulnerable?"). Who knows what's going to happen next?