No man's land

• Main Author: Chuen, Kah Jun
• Other Authors: Ang Song Nian
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Masculinity; Narratives; Sexism; Heterosexism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176558
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

No Man’s Land is a visual commentary of how masculinity is experienced, performed, coded and socially constructed. It explores narratives and experiences and their associating nuances and notions through the unconventional lenses of gay men, underlining adversarial relationships developed with masculinity. It navigates the patriarchal landscape, offering subtle insights to underlying negative social, cultural and ideological influences and issues surrounding sexism and heterosexism. Adopting a whimsical visual language, No Man’s Land surveys representations and records of masculinity, in all its myriad forms, into three outlandish stories, fostering an embrace of this contradicting and complex construct without subverting it.