LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner

LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner are an artist trio consisting of Shia LaBeouf (born 1986; Los Angeles, United States), Nastja Säde Rönkkö (born 1985; Helsinki, Finland), and Luke Turner (born 1982; Manchester, UK). Their performance art explores connection, emotion and collaboration across digital and physical platforms.

LaBeouf rose to prominence as an actor in the early 2000s with his role in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, before going on to star in a host of Hollywood blockbusters, including the Transformers and Indiana Jones film franchises. See main article: Shia LaBeouf.

Turner first gained recognition for his work on the web in the late 1990s. He later began collaborating with Rönkkö after the two met at London's Central Saint Martins, where they both graduated in Fine Art in 2008. Rönkkö subsequently established a solo career as a performance artist after earning a Masters at Slade School of Fine Art in 2011, while Turner completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2010.

In 2011, Turner authored The Metamodernist Manifesto, defining metamodernism as "the mercurial condition between and beyond irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt, in pursuit of a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons", and concluding with a call to "go forth and oscillate!" LaBeouf reached out to Turner in early 2014 after reading the manifesto, writing him a "fan letter." At the time, LaBeouf was embroiled in a plagiarism controversy after it was revealed he had used the work of graphic novelist Daniel Clowes without credit in his 2012 short film, Howard Cantour.com. Turner then introduced LaBeouf to Rönkkö, and the trio began their collaboration, embarking on a series of actions described by Dazed as "a multi-platform meditation on celebrity and vulnerability."

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