Shia LaBeouf’s latest offbeat art experiment has hit the road.
The “Transformers” actor just launched a month-long hitchhiking voyage across the United States, during which he’ll regularly tweet out his location coordinates in hopes of snagging a ride from a fan.
LaBeouf, 29, teamed up with fellow creative spirits Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner for the free-flowing adventure, which they deemed #TAKEMEANYWHERE. Supporters can follow their progress on an interactive website hosted by Vice.com.
The trio kicked off their journey near Boulder, Colorado on Monday and will continue the trek until June 23. At the conclusion of the expedition, the Finnish Institute in London and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art will display a documentary film chronicling their experiences.
LaBeouf, who cryptically tweeted out coordinates in the days leading up to the launch, chalked the venture up as the “most expansive and most intimate thing we’ve done” in a sit-down interview with Vice shortly before they began their trip
“With these projects, we try to retain a naiveté-or that’s the goal,” he told the website. “The goal is to sorta stay naive, stay impressionable, stay malleable.”
It’s hardly the first time LaBeouf has flexed his experimental muscles for the sake of performance-art. He infamously stepped out on the International Film Festival Berlinale red carpet in 2014 wearing a paper bag over his head proclaiming, “I am not famous anymore.”
He also invited the public to watch him cry in a program titled #IAMSORRY that same year, then sat through a non-stop cycle of his own movies for three days in a Manhattan movie theater in an event billed #ALLMYMOVIES in 2015.
And in February, he rode up and down in elevator on the Oxford University campus in England for 24 consecutive hours.
But LaBeouf says his quirky exploits aren’t about merely drawing attention to himself. He hopes to achieve a greater purpose.
“With everything we do, we’re trying to find meaning, make meaning,” he told Vice.
