Actor Shia LaBeouf has relaunched his 4-year anti-Trump livestream protest in New Mexico.
Earlier last week, The Museum Of The Moving Image shut down the protest created by LaBeouf, Nastja Sade Ronkko and Luke Turner.
LaBeouf released the following statement;
“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.
In fact, the museum demonstrated a spectacular lack of judgement—and courtesy to us as artists—by neglecting to consult us when they staged a political rally at the site of our artwork on January 29, 2017.
On numerous occasions, we voiced serious concerns to the museum about hate speech occurring at the site of our project, and requested that the museum act responsibly in moderating this and providing the public a means of reporting such incidents. Our requests were not even acknowledged, let alone acted upon.
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.”
Open to all, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the participatory performance will be live-streamed at www.hewillnotdivide.us continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency. In this way, the mantra “HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US” acts as a show of resistance or insistence, opposition or optimism, guided by the spirit of each individual participant and the community.
LaBeouf was arrested in New York City last month after he got into an altercation during the protest.
He now faces a misdemeanour assault charge and will appear in court on April 4th.
