VISUAL DIARY AS PROSTHETIC PRACTICE IN BOBBY BAKER'S DIARY DRAWINGS

British performance artist Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings, created over a decade during a struggle with mental illness for which she was institutionalized forty-one times, explores and images aspects of self-experience that have been marginalized in the humanist tradition of autobiography. Refracting her self-portraits through various forms of the inhuman-animal, vegetative, machine-she develops a tropology of visual images that "unmirror" self-representation in the violence of self-misrecognition. Her reflections on her own process chart a posthuman prosthetic practice that does not therapeutically reincorporate her to the human, but generates a culminating self-portrait as an ahuman landscape of the self.