Watching Shia LaBeouf do nothing is now an actual art exhibit in L.A.
If you’re already lamenting that you missed out on Dumb Starbucks, another performance art exhibit about the inherent emptiness of performance art, all perpetrated behind the face of a huge corporate tool, is also underway in Los Angeles. The Cohen Gallery is currently hosting an installation titled “#IAMSORRY,” a collaboration between Shia LaBeouf, “metamodernist” philosopher Luke Turner, and Finnish performance artist Nastja Säde Rönkkö that runs Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. During those hours you’ll find Shia LaBeouf sitting silently in a room—wearing the tuxedo and “I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE” paper bag he donned for a recent Nymphomaniac screening—presenting himself for your scrutiny, his penitence, and everyone’s collective exhaustion. As many have already noted, it’s a lot like Marina Abramovic’s piece “The Artist Is Present,” in that it is another thing LaBeouf has deliberately plagiarized from her.