Hollywood enigma Shia LaBeouf is in town and you’re invited be a part of his latest performance art piece.
The actor-turned-human-meme is in Sydney for BingeFest, a 24-hour festival celebrating pop culture and the internet, and will be appearing at the Sydney Opera House for a free interactive art performance dubbed #ANDINTHEEND.
The collaborative work between LaBeouf and fellow artists Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner will run at the SOH for two successive nights, starting tonight, with the official event description spruiking the artistic itinerary as such:
“From midnight tonight, visitors are invited into the Joan Sutherland Theatre, one by one, to participate by delivering a message or statement to the trio inside. The sole requirement is that each participant’s message should begin with the words: “AND IN THE END…” Visitors are free to interpret this request in any way they see fit.
Once communicated to the artists, visitor’s messages will be relayed to the world during a continuous broadcast, live-streamed online at andintheend.sydneyoperahouse.com. At the same time, their words will be beamed out across a 60-metre-long LED display at Sydney Opera House.”
But LaBeouf buffs had best make themselves comfy, because each performance is going to be a bloody marathon, running from midnight til 6am tonight (17th December) and 10pm and 6am tomorrow night (18th December).
Entry’s free but not guaranteed, with the Opera House stressing that it’s a first-in, best-dressed type sitch. Wannabe audience members can start queueing beneath the SOH Monumental Stairs from 10pm tonight and 8pm tomorrow.
According to a statement from LaBeouf & co (via Pedestrian TV):
As 2016 draws to a close, we are all too aware of the pervasive sense of foreboding that has come to define the year.
Wars have raged, demagogues have risen, cultural heroes have departed, environmental catastrophe looms, while the voices of the people have been continually manipulated and polarised. Hope for the future seems more distant than ever.
And yet, we still yearn for some greater truth, for the utopias of our distant horizons expressed through art.
So yeah. You heard ’em.
#ANDINTHEENDhttps://t.co/vFrBiB9VUh
Sydney Opera House
midnight tonight until 6am AEDT pic.twitter.com/1FckJuNlBd— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) December 17, 2016
