Politics, punk and poetry! Six years ago, the English journalist Anika Henderson made a successful career turn, plunging into music and interpreting songs by the likes of Yoko Ono and Bob Dylan in a stubbornly groovy cloak. On her debut album, produced by Portishead creator Geoff Barrow, Anika interweaves dub, punk, wave and no-wave, speaking rather than singing and appearing on stage like a diva, cold and aloof. Her cover versions have become underground hits and the album is part of many record collections across different generations.

Since then, Anika has kept reorienting herself and her artistic oeuvre. She has collaborated with Krautrock legends Kreidler in Berlin, worked on a multimedia project with video artist Phillip Geist in Tehran and established a band called Exploded View from scratch in Mexico City, who are on a world tour this year with their debut album. In the meantime, she uses her rare solo appearances for unique experiments, in which poetry, sound, music and visuals coalesce into a multidimensional performance, songs assume new shapes and guests join in. Anika reveals nearly unbelievable intermediate states of her diverse work, defying expectations and surprising everybody with a decisive, constantly evolving version of herself. Miraculously, she has so far never performed in Vienna before; this is her first time.