academia
Dr. Kat Henry holds a Phd in performance philosophy. Her current research investigates how long durational performance art and narrative drama might intersect in formally experimental contemporary theatre forms. She is particularly interested in philosophies of time and how temporalities are performed. She is a full-time lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Art (VCA, Faculty of Fine arts and Music) , Theatre Department where she is Postgraduate Coordinator and also coordinates the Master of Theatre (Directing) degree.
PhD Thesis
Escaping the time trap: Using long durational performance art to investigate temporalisation
Kathryn Henry, Stacy Holman Jones (ed.), Stuart GRANT (ed.)
Published : 2021
Grants, Awards and Prizes
RTP PhD full academic scholarship, 2017-2021
Research Development Grant, University of Melbourne, FFAM 2026
Research Development Grant, University of Melbourne, FFAM 2024
Journal Articles
IThe Iconography of Digital Windows - Perspectives on the Pervasive Impact of the Zoom Digital Window on Embodied Creative Practice in 2020
Kathryn Henry, Jeremy Neideck, Shane Pike, Kathryn Kelly
Body, Space and Technology | Brunel University | Published : 2021
DOI: 10.16995/bst.365.
Academic Conferences/Papers
International Conference on Characteristics and History of Performance Art, 2026, Amsterdam Durational performance art method: a 3-step process by which to disrupt temporalities
Australasian Society of Continental Philosophers, 2025, Melbourne University Smooth-time: A Possible Conception of Time revealed by Long Duration Performance Art
International Federation for Theatre Research 2024, University of the Philippines Diliman, Manila
The Nexus of Long Durational Performance and Duration Performance Art: A Metaphor for the Excruciation of Sustained Ecological Destruction
Australiasian Association for Theatre, Drama, and Performance Studies, 2022, University of Auckland
TimePod and Deliverance: How Long Durational Performance Art Might Reveal Alternative Conceptions of Time and Temporality
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9124-5518