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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Shia LaBeouf is at it again.

The "Transformers" actor is spending 24 hours inside an elevator at famed debating society Oxford Union in England as part of a performance art project dubbed "#ELEVATE."

The 29-year-old LaBeouf and two other artists, Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner, are transforming the elevator into a "debate chamber."

For those looking to join the discussion, there's good news.

The entire event is being broadcast live on YouTube.

#ELEVATE (ENDED) - LINK TO FULL STREAM IN DESCRIPTION by OxfordUnion on YouTube

"Visitors will be able to join LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner inside the elevator during this time, and are invited to address the artists, the debating chamber, and the internet, so that their collective voices may form an extended, expansive and egalitarian Oxford Union address," according to the project's YouTube page.

LaBeouf and his fellow artists traded questions and sometimes jokes with differing groups of people as they piled into and out of the elevator. Many interactions would of course end with a selfie.

When asked by one group what the most difficult time in his life was, LaBeouf said the last couple of years have been "interesting," and filled with both turmoil and a lot of positives.

"It's been very extreme," LaBeouf said. "Highs very high and lows very low."

In June 2014, LaBeouf was charged with criminal trespassing and two counts of disorderly conduct after he disrupted a performance of "Cabaret" at Studio 54. Witnesses and police said LaBeouf was yelling profanities inside the theater and later spit on a police officer.

Last March, a judge told the actor the case against him would be dismissed and sealed if he avoided being arrested for six months.

The performance art trio has worked together on past projects, including "#ALLMYMOVIES" last November, when LaBeouf watched his films in reverse order for three days at the Angelika Film Center in Manhattan.

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