Shia LaBeouf has really taken the election of President Trump hard, and, at this point, it's not even fair to make fun of him. The actor/performance artist's latest installment of his ongoing, live-streaming, psychotic breakdown dubbed an "art installation" has moved to Duke City, New Mexico, and as you can see by the video above, it doesn't disappoint. Caution, strong language is used.
The Albuquerque Journal describes the scene that unfolded over the weekend at La Beouf's "He Will Not Divide Us" performance thusly:
Actor Shia LaBeouf — clad in a jacket with “he will not divide us” scrawled on it — stood with his back toward a crowd of dozens in Downtown on Saturday, staying on-message when asked about his appearance in Albuquerque.
“We are anti the normalization of division. That’s it. The rest of the info is right there, chief, I got nothing else to say to you,” he said as he pointed to a placard describing the streetside performance that’s been attached to the west wall of El Rey Theater at Seventh and Central. “We’re just anti the normalization of division.”
LaBeouf and artists Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner brought their live-stream “participatory performance artwork,” anti-Donald Trump protest to the Duke City after the initial staging of the performance at a New York City museum was shut down earlier this month.
The project consists of a 24-hour live-streaming camera mounted to a wall with the message in block letters: “He will not divide us,” referring to Trump. [...] The event drew a crowd into the night, with demonstrators shutting down Seventh Street for several hours in the afternoon. Nearby police officers said they didn’t plan on intervening in the event as the demonstration was peaceful.
A scruffy-looking LaBeouf, wearing his hair in a ponytail, tight ripped pants, tube socks and sneakers, spent part of the afternoon leaning against the theater wall and listening to a speech by one of the protesters. He greeted people there and took selfies with them, and smoked cigarettes in between repeating the performance mantra into the camera.
LaBeouf did not explain why he chose Albuquerque, but vowed to continue battling President Trump via the camera. Art Trumps hate. Or so he says.
Vive la resistance.
