As part of Greater New York, Flushing, Queens-based collective Red Canary Song presents their Homeroom project Touch the Heart. The grassroots collective is led by migrant massage and sex workers across the Asian diaspora, and formed in 2017 in response to the death of Yang Song, a migrant Chinese massage worker killed during a police raid in Queens. Advocating for essential safety measures, they protested against police violence and argued for the decriminalization of unlicensed massage labor and sex work. Since then, Red Canary Song has expanded into a mutual aid network that foregrounds the experiences of directly impacted workers, providing groceries, cash assistance, translation services, and connection to legal support and person-first health care. Amid ongoing raids and mass deportations, Red Canary Song continues to organize across shifting conditions of visibility.

Our signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area returns for its sixth edition this spring, coinciding with MoMA PS1’s 50th anniversary. Spanning all levels of MoMA PS1’s historic school building, Greater New York 2026 brings into focus over 50 multidisciplinary artists in the formative years of their careers.

On the occasion of Greater New York, join Red Canary Song, whose installation Touch the Heart is currently on view in Homeroom, for a day of dim sum origami making. A direct translation of the Cantonese phrase dim sum, “Touch the Heart” encapsulates Red Canary Song’s mutual-aid framework. The dim sum table is where outreach workers gather with community members to offer sustenance—in a merging of resource sharing, conviviality, and comfort food. Among their community, food carries stories of migration, of bodily care and desire, of grieving and longing, and provisions of cultural knowledge. Participants will create origami sculptures resembling dim sum dishes and other forms of sustenance, considering care as an essential practice.

Join us for performances by Tom Thayer, Chang Yuchen & Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Kite as part of Greater New York 2026, MoMA PS1’s signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area. Free tickets will be released soon, subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know.