The increasingly strange (and consistently plagiarized) tale of actor, noted Daniel Clowes fan, and staunch anti-showering advocate Shia LaBeouf took yet another turn yesterday in Los Angeles, as he opened an art show titled “#IAMSORRY.” As chronicled by what seems like every entertainment journalist in the greater L.A. area, guests enter a gallery one at a time, and are instructed to choose from a set of “implements” on a table: according to Buzzfeed, these include “a leather whip, a pair of pliers, a vase of daisies, an Optimus Prime Transformer toy, a bowl of Hershey’s kisses, a bowl of folded slips of paper containing tweets about LaBeouf, a large bottle of Jack Daniels, a small bottle of Brut cologne, a pink ukulele, and the graphic novel The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes.”

Once they’ve chosen their object, participants are taken behind a black curtain, where LaBeouf is sitting, dressed in his black tie finest: a tuxedo and a paper bag over his head scrawled with the words “I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE.” Then Shia stares at the person for a few minutes. In some instances, he cries. You’re supposed to bring one of the items on the table with you when you see LaBeouf, but my sources tell me that if you bring him a cup of Dumb Starbucks coffee you actually win the Internet, and Al Gore appears from behind another curtain to give you a check for $1 million.

The spectacle is reminiscent of Marina Abrambovic’s famous performance art piece The Artist Is Present, in which Abramovic sat in a chair all day for a period of weeks, silently staring at a series of guests in the Museum Of Modern Art, but I’m sure that’s just an incredible coincidence. There’s a lot of speculation about LaBeouf’s motives in all of this. Is he having a Amanda Bynes-esque, child star-goes-crazy meltdown? Is this all an ingeniously calculated multimedium art project from the star of Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull? Is LaBeouf playing everyone for a fool for personal amusement? If you want my opinion (which, in a bold meta-move, I’ve completely copied from Yahoo! Answers), I think LaBeouf got busted genuinely and thoughtlessly cribbing from Daniel Clowes’ book for his short film “HowardCantour.com,” and then, in an effort to save face and deflect the criticism, he turned the whole thing into an “art project” on copyright, plagiarism, and people wearing bags over their heads. Speaking of which, has anyone seen The Unknown Comic lately?