April 2024

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In her exploration of the intricate interplay between community, needs, and healthcare, Pernilla Manjula Philip's artistic practice takes shape in various forms, including video, sculpture, and spatial installations. Her research, often grounded in lived experiences, addresses the fundamental question of agency over our sick bodies and treatment protocols.

Pernilla's work engages with the potentials of hacking and tinkering as collaborative tools of activism, emphasizing how open-source solutions informs new systems of Collective care.

In a closer look at the impact of "black box" medical technology, she examines the violent consequences it imposes on those whose lives depend on it.

In her recent work, Post Purposing Pump Station (2023), Pernilla acknowledges open-source medical solutions as interwoven with communities of users and developers, yet remain contingent on the production lines of proprietary products.

In this installation Pernilla reproduces the production-line of medical aid through do-it-yourself methods, challenging the prevailing notion of medical technology as fast-pace and successfully using cutting-edge (certified, proprietary) solutions. Disabled people are hackers out of necessity. Self-diagnosis, online research, repurposing and hacking of our surroundings are common practice for many of us.