Carissa Pobre is a writer, strategist, and educator born and raised in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Her multidisciplinary practice traverses methods and topics in class politics, institutional critique, and social movements.
Her latest work is the artistic-pedagogic project slant school (2025–) that performed an experimental lecture series in Manila and Baguio on the social formation of intellectual-activists. In 2024, she was selected for the SOMA international program in Mexico City that explored collaborative pedagogies among artists, curators, critics, and art historians. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art and Regenerative Culture from University of New Mexico. She is a co-founder of rift, an independent gallery and emergent space for artistic experimentation in Metro Manila.
Among her writings are two books of poetry and essays, Compositions (2023) and Formations (2021). For three years, she served as co-steer of Agam Agenda, an initiative that organized arts-based mobilizations for climate action as well as the international anthology of poetry, prose, and photography, Harvest Moon (2021). She is also co-editor of Makisawsaw Recipes x Ideas: Community Gardens Edition (2021), produced together with citizen action groups that organize community kitchens and urban food gardens in Metro Manila.
Her professional experience and critical engagements span over a decade of multifaceted work across culture, politics, and sustainability. She teaches and works closely together with various collectives for cultural organizing and political education.
Her latest work is the artistic-pedagogic project slant school (2025–) that performed an experimental lecture series in Manila and Baguio on the social formation of intellectual-activists. In 2024, she was selected for the SOMA international program in Mexico City that explored collaborative pedagogies among artists, curators, critics, and art historians. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art and Regenerative Culture from University of New Mexico. She is a co-founder of rift, an independent gallery and emergent space for artistic experimentation in Metro Manila.
Among her writings are two books of poetry and essays, Compositions (2023) and Formations (2021). For three years, she served as co-steer of Agam Agenda, an initiative that organized arts-based mobilizations for climate action as well as the international anthology of poetry, prose, and photography, Harvest Moon (2021). She is also co-editor of Makisawsaw Recipes x Ideas: Community Gardens Edition (2021), produced together with citizen action groups that organize community kitchens and urban food gardens in Metro Manila.
Her professional experience and critical engagements span over a decade of multifaceted work across culture, politics, and sustainability. She teaches and works closely together with various collectives for cultural organizing and political education.
Contact: carissapobre@gmail.com