Shona MacDonaldCoe LapossyN.C. Christopher CouchKeaton, Althea2024-04-262024-04-262019-052019-0510.7275/14369344https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33868Existence Stories is an interactive activist art project that gathers personal narratives from people about the ways in which their lives have been impacted by the current political climate in the United States, particularly surrounding the 2016 Presidential election and its aftermath. The project harnesses first-person narrative and audience participation as tools for humanizing the “Other” and building connections between people through the act of sharing stories. As the project has progressed over time, it has evolved in multiple directions and come to incorporate a variety of media, primarily comics, animation, printmaking, and zines. The roles that reproduction, distribution, and communication play in all of these media are also explored within this body of work.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/comicsparticipatory artactivist artzinesprintmakinganimationBook and PaperIllustrationInteractive ArtsInterdisciplinary Arts and MediaPrintmakingExistence Storiesthesishttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8431-3420