As part of the upcoming Greater New York survey, 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.

The Greater New York 2026 performance program takes place across three Saturdays in May and June, featuring artists whose work is simultaneously on view at MoMA PS1, and others whose primary medium is live ephemeral work, reflecting the range of practices surveyed. The performances extend Greater New York’s examination of the city as an ecosystem as well as the fluctuating currency of ideas, attention, and value that structure contemporary life.

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.