In Shia LaBeouf's latest performance art project, members of the public are invited to ring him up on the phone for a chat.

Transformers/Indiana Jones/Even Stevens star LaBeouf, along with creative partners Luke Turner and Nastja Säde Rönkkö, is currently installed in a gallery in Liverpool, where the trio will be answering phone calls in a project titled #TOUCHMYSOUL.

The performance is part of the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology's FOLLOW exhibition which, says the website, "raises questions about the ways in which we seek validation from social media and, ultimately, explores how we behave when everyone is watching"

For the next four days, LaBeouf, Rönkkö and Turner will be answering calls made to +44 (0)151 808 0771, from 11am to 6pm GMT. The performance is being livestreamed at touch-my-soul.net

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"We’re more connected than ever before," the trio say in their press release for the project. "Able to interact with friends, public figures and even foes over the internet each day, what impact is this having on how we understand our relationships with those around us, and the ways our emotional cores are configured?"

"#TOUCHMYSOUL asks us how we can truly connect with another person across the networks, what this feels like, and how we can be moved by such an encounter. The collective’s performance, commissioned by FACT for Follow, attempts to bring those connections into focus, and capture what happens in a lasting, indelible way. "

Shia Labeouf just hung up the phone on me. #TOUCHMYSOUL 😭 — Jack Stewart (@JackTheTyrant) December 10, 2015

LaBeouf, Rönkkö and Turner's previous works include #IAMSORRY, in which LaBeouf sat in an LA gallery with a bag over his head while people came in to spend time with him, and most recently, #ALLMYMOVIES, in which the actor spent three days and nights watching all his films in reverse order, while his every facial reaction was streamed live online.

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