Vladimir Dodig Trokut is a prominent Croatian and international visual artist, shaman, art collector, donor, and writer. He has established the hypothesis on “the real and unreal in art” (orpheism and artism). He is the author of numerous museum projects and production polygons-factories, and the founder of the first Anti-museum in the world. So far, he has produced more than 700 thematic exhibitions, actions, performances, body-arts, installations, Wunderkammer, living theatres, monodramas, and theatre pieces. He is featured in various Croatian and international encyclopaedias and lexica. He has kept company with various famous and distinguished artists, such as Joseph Beuys, John Cage, and others. Dodig Trokut is the leader and founder of various formal and informal art groups, such as a fraction of Red Peristyle, 3i, Group 30, Manifesto 72, and Attributive Participation Group (together with Darko Schneider and Harald Szeemann). Since 1968, he has been shifting from shamanism to art and from art to anti-museology. He has been declaring himself as an orpheist, becoming involved in objective art (real art). Initiator of a variant of conceptual and post-conceptual no-art, and author of several new global museological and art practices, as well as terminology in new art practice and museology – Anti-museum, Black-it-art, Black out-art, Black no-art, industrial archaeology, and blood archaeology.

Darko Schneider