Merv Espina
(Philippines)

merv espina pirates, conspires and collaborates to prompt parties, platforms, performances, kitchens, festivals, scents, and soundscapes. He is a member of Kulagu tu Buvongan, a collective focused on indigenous rights, environmental justice, and sonic ethnography of the nature and people of the Pantaron Mountain Range in Southern Mindanao. Individually and collectively, he has exhibited, intervened and performed across ad-hoc and artist-run initiatives, to institutional spaces and perennial art events, like the Jakarta Biennale 2015, Yokohama Triennial 2020, and Colomboscope 2024.