《附属物》展示了超过25位视觉艺术家的作品，其中包括Kodai Nakahara、Tatsuo Miyajima、Kazumi Nakamura、Yukie Ishikawa、Tsuyoshi Ozawa、Yukinori Yanagi等人的作品，媒介涵盖绘画、雕塑、持续表演、噪音、视频和摄影，它重点探讨了卑鄙的政治、超越媒介、表演性、讽刺与模拟等主题。《附属物》汇集了一些最神秘的作品，这些作品最早产生于持续20年的丰富时期，对我们今天认知和理解日本当代艺术的方式具有举足轻重的意义。

Focusing on the themes of abject politics, transcending media, performativity, and satire and simulation, Parergon presents the work of over twenty-five visual artists including Kodai Nakahara, Tatsuo Miyajima, Kazumi Nakamura, Yukie Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi Ozawa and Yukinori Yanagi in an array of media spanning painting, sculpture, duration performance, noise, video and photography.

The title makes reference to the gallery in Tokyo (Gallery Parergon, 1981-1987) that introduced many artists associated with the New Wave phenomenon, its name attributed to Jacques Derrida’s essay from 1978 which questioned the “framework” of art, influential to artists and critics during the period. Parergon brings together some of the most enigmatic works that were first generated during a rich two-decade period that are pivotal to the way we perceive and understand contemporary Japanese art today. In the aftermath of the conceptual reconsideration of the object and relationality spearheaded by Mono-

ha in the 1970s, this era opened up new critical engagements with language and medium where artists explored expansions in installation, performance, and experimental multi-genre practices.

The book follows the exhibition at Blum & Poe which ran in two parts from February to May 2019 in Los Angeles.