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"Shia LaBeouf has claimed that his recent erratic behavior has all been in the name of &amp;quot;performance art.&amp;quot; The Transformers star recently came under fire after it was revealed that his short film HowardCantour.com had plagiarised a a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes.   LaBeouf drew further criticism when it was revealed that several of his written apologies were plagiarised from political speeches, quotes, and in one case a comment on Yahoo! Answers.  According to Gossip Cop, the actor has described his behavior as art in a series of posts on Twitter.  He wrote on Saturday (January 18): &amp;quot;Performance art has been a way of appealing directly to a large public, as well as shocking audiences into reassessing their own notions of art and its relation to culture. &amp;quot;All art is either plagarisum (sic) or revolution &amp;amp; to be revolutionary in art today, is to be reactionary.  &amp;quot;In the midst of being embroiled in acts of intended plagiarism, the world caught me &amp;amp; I reacted.  &amp;quot;The show began. I became completely absorbed, oblivious to things around me.&amp;quot; The actor also explained that his Twitter handle, @TheCampaignBook, represents &amp;quot;meta-modernist performance art,&amp;quot; and claimed that his antics have sparked a &amp;quot;broad cultural discussion that needs to be had about plagiarism in the digital age &amp;amp; celebrity/social media absurdity.&amp;quot; He finally made a reference to his recent fight in a London pub, ending with the hashtag: &amp;quot;#StopHeadButting.&amp;quot; Catch up on all the latest TV and Movies releases in Digital Spy&amp;#039;s Screen Time:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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