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
