【東南亞抗爭者系列座談：怒吼吧，年輕人！】藝術家如何支持邊緣化社群：菲律賓社運人士連結校園、藝術與街頭 For the Margins: Socially Engaged Art and Activism in the Philippines

嘻哈、劇場、舞蹈，與來自首都的年輕藝術家們，對於民主運動與遙遠的原住民社群，有什麼意義？

Roselle Pineda是一位菲律賓的藝術家、學者、文化工作者與社運人士，作為一名在首都任教的教授，她卻總是望向更邊緣的社群。

她不只為了社會運動表演、創作，教導菲律賓各地居民如何運用藝術倡議，更組織菲律賓大學迪利曼分校的藝術家與青年們投入菲律賓民主運動，及等被邊緣化地區的原住民和環境運動。

開學季，我們邀請Roselle Pineda分享她的經驗，她如何以校園作為基地，培育藝術家與青年，支持民主運動與被邊緣化地區的原住民與環境運動。

關於講者：

Roselle Pineda是一位教師、獨立研究員、文化與社區工作者、表演藝術創作者及社運人士。她在菲律賓大學迪利曼分校藝術學院教授藝術史、理論、表演藝術、創意研究與社區藝術課程，鼓勵學生將研究與創作視為公共參與和行動的形式。

Roselle 深耕菲律賓社會運動已逾30年。求學期間，她是校園團體「Alay Sining」（藝術為人民）的創始成員之一，該組織以藝術服務於人民運動。後來，她成為支持民主運動的教師團體「CONTEND-UP」的成員，同時也是「菲律賓關注藝術家」（CAP）的一員，並積極參與各區域與原住民組織的倡議行動，推動人權、文化民主與社會轉型。

她近期的重心是與奧羅拉省丁加蘭鎮 Domaget 原住民社群的合作。2018 年，她在當地創立並主持「奧羅拉藝術家駐村計畫與空間」（AARPS）。透過參與式製圖、節日策劃、表演與社區參與式研究，她支持當地原住民爭取文化尊嚴、土地與自決權。

Roselle Pineda is a Filipina artist, scholar, cultural worker, and activist whose research, teaching, and creative practice are deeply rooted in movements for social justice. She believes that scholarship, education, and artistic practice should never exist in isolation but should actively contribute to broader struggles for equity, cultural dignity, and self-determination. Throughout her work, she has consistently used art, research, and cultural practice to amplify voices from the margins and to create spaces where communities can tell their own stories and shape their own futures.

As a professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Roselle mentors students to see the university not only as a site of learning but also as a platform for social engagement and collective action. Beyond the campus, she has worked alongside the Domaget Indigenous communities of Dingalan, Aurora, supporting community-led initiatives that strengthen Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices, cultural revitalisation, and the ongoing struggle for ancestral land, cultural recognition, and self-determination. Through participatory cultural mapping, festival-making, performance, and collaborative place-making, her work demonstrates how artistic and scholarly practice can become forms of solidarity and ethical engagement.

As the new semester begins, we are honoured to welcome Roselle Pineda to share how activism can be embedded in research, teaching, and creative practice, and how the university can serve as a starting point for building long-term, community-led movements for social justice.

About the speaker:

Roselle Pineda is a Filipina teacher, researcher, cultural and community worker, performance maker, and activist whose scholarship, artistic practice, and cultural work are inseparable from her commitment to social justice. She teaches Art History, Theory, Performance, Creative Research, and Community Arts in the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she encourages students to see research and creative practice as forms of public engagement and collective action.

For more than three decades, Roselle has been actively involved in movements for social change in the Philippines. As a student, she’s one of the founding members of Alay Sining (Art for the People), a campus-based cultural organisation that used art in the service of the people’s movement. She later became an active member of the Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND-UP), as Professor at the UP Diliman, and the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), and has actively contributed in the initiatives of various regional and Indigenous organisations to improve human rights, cultural democracy, and social transformation.

Her activism is most deeply expressed through her long-term collaboration with the Domaget Indigenous communities of Dingalan, Aurora, where she founded and directs the Aurora Artist Residency Program and Space (AARPS) in 2018. Through participatory cultural mapping, festival-making, performance, and community-engaged research, her work supports the Domaget community's struggle for cultural dignity, ancestral land, and self-determination.