Shia LaBeouf is no stranger to high-flying artistic endeavours. With his collaborators Luke Turner and Nastja Säde Rönkkö, the actor has hired skywriting planes to doodle #STARTCREATING over Los Angeles, run a metamarathon around Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, and locked himself in a room with members of the public. For SXSW15, LaBeouf, Rönkkö and Turner were commissioned by Dazed to create a new interactive art project that would break down the emotive walls between digital culture, Hollywood and real life. They came up with #FOLLOWMYHEART.

Wearing a heart monitor 24/7 for six days, LaBeouf transmitted his heartbeat live from the Texan festival. People could log onto FOLLOW-MY-HEART.NET to watch and listen to every single murmur, throb and cardiac pulse he experienced. Or as they put it:

"When people say, “listen to your heart”, they are urging us to tune in to the loving side of our selves; the imaginative, the intuitive, the compassionate, the inner wisdom we all possess. They are telling us to listen to our passion.

As we roam the SXSW festival, the data of my heart will roam the networks, transmitted live at FOLLOW-MY-HEART.NET for us to follow together in real time for the duration. With our physical distance collapsed by the networks, that innermost and most intimate of rhythms will be rendered immediate on our digital screens.

Like cats have whiskers, we too are born with a guidance system: our heart. It is our inner GPS, our map, and our guide. It promises to lead us down the path of maximum fulfillment. If you #FOLLOWMYHEART, it may lead to yours."

In this video, the trio discuss the project and their collective work to date.

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Table of Content:

00:00 START

6:43 “We just clicked straight away.” – Luke Turner on being approached by Shia, and his hopes and fears.

8:39 "I was in a pretty shitty situation” – Shia LaBeouf on reappropriation, originality, and meeting Rönkkö and Turner.

12:01 What is Metamodernism? An introduction to the Metamodernist manifesto.

14:20 “It’s all about feeling.” – The importance of people's reactions and instincts.

21:18 Shia on getting beaten down by the internet, and developing a new healing process.

22:36 “This work is the adult me, adding another room on the house, to gain perspective of the house” – the actor’s identity crisis.

24:20 “Blessed with pain” – using pain as material and harnessing the negative to create art.

27:15 Martyrdom in art

29:23 Meditation for Narcissists

31:38 The Meta-marathon

33:20 “It’s an existential crisis turned existential exploration” – Why art doesn’t always need to be taken seriously.

34:42 Social networks as an art form: the poetic rhythm of twitter and the egalitarianism of the internet.

36:48 Shia's take on Sia's video, Maddie the wolf and Beuys influence.

40:46 "You need a sprinkle of insanity to be a good artist” – why the best actors are troublesome.

41:58 Therapy with Gary Oldman.

42:44 Insecurities played out in front of the world and the search for a family.

44:57 Follow My Heart: the conception and a demonstration.

49:30 “It’s the most aware I’ve ever been” – Shia on how the #FollowMyHeart monitor has affected his life.

53:00 “Everything we tweet will live past us” – how the project has made them aware of their own mortality.

54:20 Audience and Twitter questions

Image Credits:
Sia - Elastic Heart video footage courtesy of
RCA Records/Republic Records/Lionsgate©

‘Even Stevens’ footage courtesy of Disney©

‘Holes’ film poster courtesy of Disney©

‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ film poster
courtesy of Paramount Pictures©

‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ film poster
courtesy of Paramount Pictures©

‘Fury’ film poster and still courtesy of Columbia Pictures©

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