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In former (?) actor Shia LaBeouf's latest performance art stunt, he will be taking calls at a mini call center:

The Hollywood star has set up his own call centre in the city's Fact gallery, where he and his two artistic collaborators will field calls.

They will be at their desks between 11:00 and 18:00 GMT from Thursday to Sunday.

Those wishing to touch LaBeouf's soul can call the trio on 0151 808 0771.

Others can visit the gallery to see the event unfold in person, or can watch a live stream and see notes the trio are making on Touchmysoul.net.

Get in touch.

 

Reply to: Re:still an actor

    (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 10 2015, @11:59PM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Thursday December 10 2015, @11:59PM (#274713)

    There's more.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_LaBeouf#Performance_art [wikipedia.org]

    Two days later, LaBeouf, Rönkkö, and Turner staged a six-day performance in a Los Angeles gallery entitled #IAMSORRY, in which LaBeouf sat wearing a tuxedo and the paper bag, silently crying in front of visitors. Attendees were allowed to enter one at a time, and invited to choose an item from a table of "implements" to take in with them, including a Transformers toy, an Indiana Jones whip, a bottle of Jack Daniel's, a pair of pliers, a ukulele, a bowl full of hateful tweets directed at LaBeouf, and a copy of Clowes' book The Death-Ray. Time columnist Joel Stein, who spent three days waiting in line to see the performance, observed that LaBeouf "was immensely present" and that "he was whatever was projected upon him", while Kate Knibbs of The Daily Dot found the experience "genuinely disturbing" and "felt like I was further dehumanizing someone whose humanity I'd discounted". [...] The following November, in an email interview with Dazed Digital, LaBeouf said that a woman "stripped [his] clothing and proceeded to rape [him]" during the February performance.

    [...] In May 2014, LaBeouf took part in an exhibition at London's Auto Italia South East with a performance entitled Meditation for Narcissists, in which he jumped rope for an hour via a live Skype link.

    [...] During 2014, LaBeouf gave lectures via Skype at the London College of Fashion, in which he read passages from Guy Debord's 1967 Situationist work The Society of the Spectacle, and at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he presented a talk on metamodernism. Turner's 2011 Metamodernist Manifesto has also been credited to his collaborator LaBeouf, defining metamodernism as "the mercurial condition between and beyond irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt, in pursuit of a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons" and concluding with a call to "go forth and oscillate".

    I don't think they even listed it all.

    And of course there's the JUST DO IT [youtube.com] maymay and now this thing.

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