--- title: Shia LaBeouf's New Performance Art Piece Dares Us to Dream description: The enigmatic actor-artist and his collaborators took over the Sydney Opera House for a project called "#ANDINTHEEND" over the weekend. canonical: https://time.com/4606735/shia-labeouf-and-in-the-end/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-19T18:13:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:37.529Z og:title: Shia LaBeouf's New Performance Art Piece Dares Us to Dream og:description: The enigmatic actor and his collaborators took over the Sydney Opera House. og:url: https://time.com/4606735/shia-labeouf-and-in-the-end/ 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's New Performance Art Piece Dares Us to Dream twitter:description: The enigmatic actor and his collaborators took over the Sydney Opera House. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Shia LaBeouf Helped People Get Their Feelings About 2016 Stress Out  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 19, 2016 6:13 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 19, 2016 6:13 PM UTC Over the weekend, [ever-evolving actor-artist Shia LaBeouf](http://time.com/4503609/shia-labeouf-weird-behavior-timeline/?iid=sr-link3) turned to [performance art once again](http://time.com/4230408/shia-labeouf-24-hours-elevator/?iid=sr-link5) with his partners Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner for a project called #ANDINTHEEND, keeping with the team’s tendency towards [hashtag branding and public involvement](http://time.com/4346915/shia-labeouf-takemeanywhere-facts/?iid=sr-link2). This time, the trio camped out at the Sydney Opera House for two nights as, one by one, visitors delivered a message to them starting with the cryptic phrase “And in the end…” “As 2016 draws to a close, we are all too aware of the pervasive sense of foreboding that has come to define the year,” LaBeouf and his collaborators expressed in a statement. “And yet, we still yearn for some greater truth, for the utopias of our distant horizons, expressed through art.” The messages from the visitors were streamed online and on a giant digital screen outside the Opera House. [In the over-seven-hour video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTuqdzu815s), LaBeouf, Rönkkö, and Turner are seated—mostly silent—onstage, where they take notes. A shaggy-haired Shia intermittently runs his hands over his head. Sometimes, he speaks. “And in the end, Bukowski’s poetry saved me,” he announces at one point. Participants seemed to appreciate the cathartic opportunity to express themselves. > [](https://twitter.com/asexandthecity/status/810556535029927937) > [](https://twitter.com/ConnorCatlow%5FNZ/status/810732660939223040) > [](https://twitter.com/jaymeup/status/810481286674452481) > [](https://twitter.com/OatieGoodness/status/810280239268036609) > [](https://twitter.com/Meekz%5F%5F%5F/status/810152715540017152) > [](https://twitter.com/invzimAUS/status/810503864789012480) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4606735/shia-labeouf-and-in-the-end/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4606735/shia-labeouf-and-in-the-end/"},"headline":"Shia LaBeouf Helped People Get Their Feelings About 2016 Stress Out","datePublished":"2016-12-19T18:13:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:37.529Z","description":"\"And in the end, Bukowski's poetry saved me.\"","url":"https://time.com/4606735/shia-labeouf-and-in-the-end/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities","Art"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"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/4606735/shia-labeouf-and-in-the-end/","name":"Shia LaBeouf Helped People Get Their Feelings About 2016 Stress Out"}}]}] ```