Pernilla Manjula Philip
Pernilla Manjula Philip explores chronic illness in relation to the medical industry, approaching it as both lived reality and site of inquiry. Rooted in personal experience, her research investigates how do-it-yourself/together (DIY/DIT) and open-source medical tools surface questions of vulnerability, shared resilience and power. She highlights how unofficial practices challenge dominant medical narratives while raising questions about who shapes medical knowledge and what counts as safety. Alongside her practice, she teaches in art education and is a founding member of Crip The Curriculum.
This spring and fall Arias' Care Ecologies research group is hosting The Ugly Sides of Care Reading Group to invite a joint thinking around the topic of care-friction. For each session, an artist-researcher from the ARIAS network is invited to propose their perspective on care-friction within facilitation, through a discourse of choice. Arias is excited to invite you to the first session of this series with Pernilla Manjula Philip, whose research engages with chronic illness, DIY approaches to medical tools, and questions around who gets to shape knowledge and practices of care.