Shia LaBeouf Relaunches Anti-Trump Art Project One Week After Shut Down
Shia LaBeouf is back at it.
The 30-year-old actor has announced plans to relaunch his anti-Trump art project, “HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US,” one week after the piece was shut down by the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.
LaBeouf, alongside collaborators Rönkkö and Turner, spoke out against the museum in a statement on TheCampaignBook.com, revealing that the project will continue as of Saturday, relocating to the El Rey Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“From the outset, the museum failed to address our concerns about the misleading framing of our piece as a political rally, rather than as a participatory performance artwork resisting the normalisation of division,” read the statement by LaBeouf, Rönkkö and Turner. “Nonetheless, there had been no incidents of physical violence at the site of our project that we are aware of, nor that we had been informed of at any stage by the museum.”
The Museum of the Moving Image announced its decision to terminate the project last week after experiencing disruptive protests since its opening.
“The installation created a serious and ongoing public safety hazard for the Museum, its visitors, staff, local residents, and businesses,” the museum said in statement. “The…