--- title: Shia LaBeouf Spends 24 Hours in Elevator in Oxford, England description: You know, for the sake of art canonical: https://time.com/4230408/shia-labeouf-24-hours-elevator/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-19T15:32:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:15.664Z og:title: Shia LaBeouf Is Spending 24 Hours in an Elevator og:description: For the sake of art og:url: https://time.com/4230408/shia-labeouf-24-hours-elevator/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shia LaBeouf Is Spending 24 Hours in an Elevator twitter:description: For the sake of art twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Shia LaBeouf Is Spending 24 Hours in an Elevator by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 19, 2016 3:32 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 19, 2016 3:32 PM UTC Shia LaBeouf is back on the scene with another public [art project](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/12/shia-labeouf-all-my-movies-gifs). His latest stunt is called #ELEVATE and involves him hanging out in a small elevator in Oxford, England, for 24 hours. Of course, he’s live-streaming the experience, for the whole world to enjoy: The actor will be giving a talk at Oxford University on Friday night, joined by artist pals Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner, according to the project description [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KDW4o6BYUE). For the 24 hours on either side of the talk, the trio decided to occupy the elevator at EC English Oxford in [Gloucester Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester%5FGreen). You can watch other passengers step in to ask questions like “Are you guys eating?” and “Can we take a selfie?” It seems England has been LaBeouf’s preferred location for [bizarre art projects](http://time.com/3903849/shia-labeouf-motivational-speech-fake-ted-talk/) lately. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4230408/shia-labeouf-24-hours-elevator/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4230408/shia-labeouf-24-hours-elevator/"},"headline":"Shia LaBeouf Is Spending 24 Hours in an Elevator","datePublished":"2016-02-19T15:32:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:15.664Z","description":"You know, for the sake of art","url":"https://time.com/4230408/shia-labeouf-24-hours-elevator/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4230408/shia-labeouf-24-hours-elevator/","name":"Shia LaBeouf Is Spending 24 Hours in an Elevator"}}]}] ```