Bad Activist New York Performances

At National Sawdust, *Bad Activist* arrives in New York as a classical concert performance led by Mai Khôi and Mai Khôi & the Dissidents. The work sits where composed form meets the lived realities of dissent, using the concert hall as a site for testimony rather than ornament. In a city that often absorbs political art into nightlife and branding, this appearance reads as a deliberate refusal to be softened. If this is its first major New York outing, it adds a sharp chapter to the city’s ongoing conversation about exile, voice, and who gets to speak onstage.