Angélica Liddell: Seppuku tickets

Angélica Liddell almost never performs in the United States, which makes Seppuku a rare and urgent occasion. The Spanish artist steps into charged company with Yukio Mishima, the Japanese writer who pursued beauty and extremity to their outer edge, and finds in him a kindred pursuit of the erotic, the transcendent, and the unbearable.

Made with Japanese collaborators and rooted in Japanese ritual, the piece is less a performance than an ordeal, a ceremony pushed to the far limit of what a body and an audience can hold. Liddell is among the most uncompromising figures in performance anywhere, and Seppuku is her at full force: raw, excessive, exalting, a reckoning with desire, violence, beauty, and transcendence.