"Kathelin Gray’s life embraces and redefines the meaning of the artistic. A kindling spirit in the Sixties’ Haight Ashbury, Gray’s ardent intelligence has since contributed to bodies of knowledge concerning group dynamics, ancient and contemporary cultural expression and the exploration of inner and outer space. With theater as a conceptual framework, her experimentation with the emotional, intellectual and physical realms of human experience has left its mark around the planet. Playwright, director, actress, dancer, musician and composer; founder of a theater company, publishing house, record label and several performing arts centers, Gray’s multifarious collaborations reconfigured the territory of the avant-garde.

Equally impassioned with the science of drama as the drama of science, she co-founded the Institute of Ecotechnics to examine humanity's relationship with the technosphere and the biosphere, and was a seminal force in the creation of Biosphere II. Gray’s most influential achievement is the articulation of an artistic neotype, an individual capable of an extraordinary breadth and intensity of experience, one who is free to act, able to transform understanding into any number of manifestations, all vividly inspired and inspiring."

by maria golia
14 feb 2002

photo at the Moquattam: David Golia