If you’re a successful actor, you have a solid, viewable record of so many moments in life that no one will perceive the way you do. Anyone else might look at it and shrug, but I remember how dumb, or loud, or selfish I was. I intentionally never look back at my Facebook or Twitter it’s just too intense. He is doing that, extremely cringe-worthy act of “activating a space,” and he’s doing it well. Sidekick to freakin' Indiana Jones) taking stock of what he’s done in reverse order before our eyes.
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We have a child actor who has made the transition to adult leading man (and One in which the reality is magnified in order to be perceptible. Here isn't a doubt in my mind that LaBeouf is performing for the camera while he's live streaming himself watching his films. “Come run with me, talk to me while I wear a heart monitor, watch one of my movies with me (it’s as weird for me as it is for you).” This is actually very clever, and it’s about as close as a celebrity can get to intimacy with the public at large. The strategy that’s being implemented is to make space for others to turn it into their own thing while using simple gestures. They’ll insist on a selfie and will laugh at a joke that no one else is laughing at, and they’ll implicitly refuse to make a new work together because, look, a celebrity. That’s hard for a celebrity to accomplish because people will turn it into their own moment. But I don’t think what LaBeouf is doing here is actually a request to be thought of as human. The worst of them are petulant (here’s looking at you Robert DeNiro). You know, “celebrities are people too,” and the smartest of them don’t complain about the difficult parts of the gig because, yes, they have a pile of money to fall back on. Something like sympathy.” Like he was a human being underneath that bag. Writing for the Daily Beast, Andrew Romano said, “I actually felt something real. Several journalists went there with the intention of gleefully making fun of weirdo Shia and came away feeling shaken. But when I read reports from his performance #iamsorry, in which LaBeouf wore a bag on his head, with the words “i am not famous anymore” written on it, it actually sounded kind of moving. When he announced that he “wasn’t famous anymore” with the enigmatic quote, “when the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea,” I saw it as petulant hostility towards journalists and an obvious bid for publicity. I saw it as stunt art by a bored actor playing artist. I didn’t really hate the works before, I just hated the attention they were getting-attention that better work would never get.
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This is the 11th work the collective has done under the project title, The Campaign Book, the eighth to be titled with a hashtag, and once again it’s about “empathy, affect, and the humanity of the networks.” Especially empathy. If you can’t go in person there’s a NewHive livestream from a camera pointed directly at Shia’s face. LaBeouf is there, 24 hours a day, watching them, and anyone willing to sit through the line is welcome to join him for free. With #allmymovies, LaBeouf and his collaborators have arranged for all of the actor's films to be played in reverse chronological order at the Angelika Film Center in New York. But you can say that about all art, and when someone writes about it, they have a responsibility to discern when the eyeroll is justified. The act of rolling one’s eyes was practically invented for LaBeouf’s work, especially out of context. He asked me to keep an open mind and try to see that they are working with the subject of “empathy, affect, and the humanity of the networks.” I think that’s true, and they’re actually doing a damn good job at it.
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Project that he has been working on in collaboration with LaBeouf and Nastja Säde Rönkkö.
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When Turner messaged me, he wasn’t angry, but wanted to clarify that this is a serious Didn’t know it at the time, but what LaBeouf and his collaborators have gradually been doing is actually quite good, and with his latest piece, #allmymovies, a large conceptual performance has started to come into focus.