Now open — "Red Canary Song: Touch the Heart" in Homeroom.
As part of Greater New York 2026, Queens-based collective Red Canary Song gathers stories of migration, care, and cultural heritage around dim sum tables in Homeroom.
"Touch the Heart," a translation of the Cantonese phrase “dim sum,” unfolds through an installation that mirrors the infrastructures sustaining the collective’s community. Four dim sum dining tables illustrate stories of migration, bodily care and desire, grieving and longing, and provisions of cultural heritage.
Formed in 2017 after the death of Yang Song, a migrant Chinese massage worker killed during a police raid in Queens, Red Canary Song is a grassroots collective led by migrant massage and sex workers across the Asian diaspora. Today, the collective operates as a mutual aid network supporting directly impacted workers through groceries, cash assistance, translation services, and connections to legal support and person-first health care.
The presentation also features portraits memorializing workers who have passed and still lifes by artist Augustina Wang documenting the belongings of those who remain.
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📷 : Red Canary Song. "Flower Spa." 2021. Courtesy the artists; Red Canary Song. "Lisa's Flower Spa." 2023. Courtesy the artists.