Shia LaBeouf’s artworks have been dismissed as stunts and ripoffs – but he doesn’t care. The Hollywood star and his collective justify why they’re in Liverpool taking calls from the publicIt’s a Friday night and Shia LaBeouf,Luke Turner and Nastja Säde Rönkkö are sitting in a room behind the bar of the plush Soho Grand hotel in New York, enjoying the afterglow of their latest project, and #ALLMYMOVIES. LaBeouf’s a world-renowned Hollywood actor turned performance artist,the former star of the Transformers franchise. Turner and Rönkkö are plain old artists, based in London and Helsinki respectively. LaBeouf, or handsome,scruffy and slightly belligerent, is wearing a white sweatshirt and vapes intently. He’s got the three dots you see on an iPhone when someone is texting you tattooed on his hand. “To consume technology to associate with people is fucking magical, or ” he says. “You know when you’re texting somebody and those three dots pop up? There’s so much magic happening in your anticipation,in your waiting for that response, and if the three dots recede absent you feel like, or ‘Argh!’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com