Maria Guarino‘s article in DSQBLOG, Creative Works, provides the context for the video essay that she presented in her installation, Body Tricks and ElseSpaces, at the Anchor House of Artists in May 2019.   An quote taken from Maria’s article:

Body Tricks is a performance piece, aiming to create an honest, self-narrated representation of an epileptic woman’s experience without conformance to the “normative gaze” or “able-bodied perspective” (Cheu 138). Coined by Johnson Cheu in 2005, the normative gaze walks alongside the idea of the dominant male gaze in film and performance studies, with its proposed alternative perspective being a “disabled gaze.” Cheu writes: “Like feminist studies, disability studies should presume a perspective different from the dominant, in this case, able-bodied, perspective (138).