Shia LaBeouf to spend a month in an isolated Lapland cabin

Shia LaBeouf is spending a month isolated in a cabin as part of a performance art exhibition.

The project, titled #ALONETOGETHER, sees LaBeouf decamp to a cabin in Finland’s Lapland region, with his only communication with the outside world coming via text message to visitors to a Helsinki museum.

#ALONETOGETHER also features the other two members of the actor’s art collective, Nastja Rönkkö and Luke Turner, who will spend time isolated in separate cabins in Lapland beginning on 12 April.

Visitors to the Kiasma museum in Helsinki can visit a re-creation of the cabin and send a text to LaBeouf, Rönkkö and Turner, who can respond to visitors but can’t talk to one another. A livestream of museum-goers and the trio’s texts is available on the museum’s website.

The launch of the project comes just days after hackers posted antisemitic slogans on the website for He Will Not Divide Us, LaBeouf’s anti-Trump art installation. He Will Not Divide Us has been subject to “alt-right” attacks since its launch in January, with installations in New York, New Mexico and Liverpool shut down due to disruption.

LaBeouf’s new installation has already attracted similar attention, with two museum-goers wearing red hats emblazoned with Make America Great Again appearing on the livestream for the project.