Shia LaBeouf takes a selfie with friends at Oscar Blues in Colorado. (Photo : YouTube / Dan Rachlitz)
Shia LaBeouf is working with frequent artist collaborators Nastja Sade Rönkkö and Luke Turner with art, culture and news magazine Vice to travel the country by his fans' good graces. The "Transformers" and "American Honey" star is hitchhiking with #TakeMeAnywhere and turns travel into an art form.
For the next 30 days, LaBeouf, Rönkkö and Turner will hitchhike using the Internet. They will be tweeting GPS coordinates via #TAKEMEANYWHERE hashtag through the project's Twitter @thecampaignbook. After tweeting, they will wait for a ride at that spot, will go with whoever picks them up first and will be taken to where they choose.
The trio's whereabouts and routes will be monitored in real time on takemeanywhere.vice.com, which stated that the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art commissions the project as part of the MediaLive 2016 and London's The Finnish Institute. The Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Vice are contributors.
The three will be posting photos of the people who help them along the way as well as document the places they visit and the people they meet. They will come up with a film which will be displayed at the Finnish Institute in London and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
Where the trio spend their 30 days will depend on those who will engage with the project or whoever gets to them first. The hitchhiking campaign, which the three described as their most intimate and expansive so far, commenced on May 23, Monday, from Lyons, Colorado where the actor's friends met him for a free lunch at Oskar Blues.
LaBeouf appeared open to try anything with the hitchhiking project. He allows the first person or group of people to arrive at his location to stay with him for an unlimited amount of time until they release him, Time reported.
The project is about making friends and finding life's meaning LaBeouf told Vice in an interview of the trio on May 22, Sunday, in a remote cabin in the midst of the Rocky Mountains. Rönkkö shared, "I'm more interested in the in-between state than arriving at a destination."
Turner shared they are putting trust on the collective, in the networks that decide and determine what will unfold. Rönkkö added, "It's about putting our trust in people, and also, people trusting us."
The following video shows LaBeouf having lunch with friends and fans in Colorado before he started the hitchhike:
