Shia LaBeouf's art project gets extra security due to troll attacks

Shia Labeouf's latest art project has led museum bosses in Finland to boost security after it was targeted by internet trolls.

The Transformers actor, 30, and Nastja Sade Ronkko and Luke Turner, members of his art collective, are each spending a month in three separate cabins in the remote Finnish region of Lapland for their project #ALONETOGETHER, during which they will be unable to contact each other.

Since Wednesday (12Apr17) all three have been isolated from the outside world bar a live video link to a similar cabin in the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, where visitors can hold conversations with them via text.

Internet trolls who objected to the trio's previous project, a live streamed protest against U.S. president Donald Trump, have continued to target Shia with abuse and have encouraged local sympathisers to locate the remote cabins.

As a result, Kiasma bosses have upped security measures at the venue, telling the BBC that they "don't tolerate hate speech and harassment."

Locals trying to wreck the project have also visited the museum and sent abusive messages to Shia and his collaborators, as well as attempting to get symbols of the political far right shown on a camera feed from the art gallery.

On Monday (17Apr17), the video link billed as providing a "continuous stream" from the museum was no longer showing up-to-date live images. Representatives for the museum did not respond to a request for comment.

The collective's anti-Donald Trump protest piece, titled HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US, began in January (17) outside New York City's Museum of the Moving Image and was supposed to run for four years - the duration of Trump's presidency.

However it was shut down in New York, then closed again after moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was shut down once more in Liverpool, England, in March (17) over security concerns.

Shia was arrested during the New York stint for misdemeanor assault following an altercation with a male attendee. The charges were later dropped.