SEPPUKU. El Funeral de Mishima - Angélica Liddell - Vienna Festival 2026

Spanish radical artist Angélica Liddell and Japanese writer Yukio Mishima share their quest for a union of beauty, eroticism and death. Seppuku, also known as Harakiri, is the ritual suicide of the Samurai and the point from which Liddell’s latest work sets out. This reflection on death and suicide is born out of an extreme will to live; it is a ritual for the dead and the living, a farewell poem that unites pain and beauty. Suicide, says Liddell, is always an avant-garde act and contains a brutal aesthetic component. Liddell confronts death with lust and beauty, life with its finite nature: art as an expression of the desire for ecstasy! Together with a dancer and an actor from Japan who Liddell has worked with before, she pushes the boundaries in her most recent work: physically, mentally, artistically.

For ages 18+

The performance deals with suicide and death.
Blood and needles are used.

Language: Spanish, Japanese with German and English surtitles
Duration: 2 hours

programme

SEPPUKU

EL FUNERAL DE MISHIMA

o el placer de morir

Seppuku. Die Beerdigung von Mishima oder die Lust am Sterben

Angélica Liddell