Shia LaBeouf moves anti-Trump art project to New Mexico after New York live stream is shut down

Shia LaBeouf has moved his anti-Donald Trump art project to New Mexico after his New York live stream was shut down.

The US actor set up the video project in Albuquerque on Saturday night, a few days after it was removed just three weeks into its four-year run.

Going live on the same website, the star is still inviting members of the public to stand in from of the camera and chant ‘He will not divide us’.

Speaking to the Albuquerque Journal, LaBeouf said: “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.”

The protest project, set up alongside Jaden Smith and artists Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner, launched at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image the day of Trump’s inauguration.

While it was supposed to run for the duration of Trump’s presidency, the plug was pulled amid ‘safety fears’ following a series of clashes with Trump supporters.

The museum released a statement last week, saying the project had become “a serious and ongoing public safety hazard.”

The statement read: “While the installation began constructively, it deteriorated markedly after one of the artists was arrested on the site of the installation and ultimately necessitated this action. Over the course of the installation, there have been dozens of threats of violence and numerous arrests, such that police felt compelled to be stationed outside the installation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

“We take our commitment to the safety of our 200,000 annual visitors and 50,000 school children attending programs at the Museum seriously, along with the safety and security of our staff and community.”

LaBeouf confirmed the news on Twitter with a picture of the official live stream replaced with the words: “THE MUSEUM HAS ABANDONED US”.