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Deathpowers
Deathpowers is a zine-length comic that resists biomedical reductionism in favor of individual agency in mental health narratives. The first of a series, the comic follows a teenage girl’s shifting identity and relationship with reality throughout her time in the adolescent mental health treatment system. The comic calls into question both the medical system and social constructions of illness, subverting expectations of identity while compelling audiences’ to renegotiate their own biases. The piece was made with a mix of pencil and digital manipulation. The work was produced with the support of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research program, as a part of a larger research project entitled BOOM! Consciousness Comics: Contemporary Documentations of Mental Health and Identity.
Annika World is a senior at Gallatin studying the intersection of filmmaking, philosophy, psychology, multimedia art, and writing. Recurring topics in Annika’s creative practice include queer love and identity, issues of disability and mental health, and constructions of reality and selfhood in a technologized world. As a multimedia artist, filmmaker, writer, and musician—and inspired by their own experiences in activism and disability justice—Annika aims to shift representational paradigms of identities that are traditionally marginalized in American media. Annika utilizes a deeply layered approach to art making and storytelling—intensifying visual and musical narratives through a process of fragmentation and collage—in order to evoke variable states of consciousness and subjectivities in perception.
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