Kathelin Gray is an American director, writer and curator working across many forms. She has co-founded numerous projects which integrate ecology, science and culture. She writes and speaks on the intersection of art and the sciences. Gray was a founder of the

Institute of Ecotechnics The Institute of Ecotechnics is an educational, training and research charity with a special interest in ecotechnology, the environment, conservation, and heritage. With its U.K. headquarters in London, England and its U.S. affiliate in Santa Fe, ...

in 1970 (incorporated in London in 1985) of which she is a director. The Institute was formed to harmonise Ecology and Technology by initiating collaborations between artists, scientists and explorers, as well as hands-on educational programmes and demonstration projects. Gray is a member of the creative curatorial team of UK's

Eden Project The Eden Project ( kw, Edenva) is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay pit, located from the town of St Blazey and from the larger town of St Austell.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS ...

International.. Gray worked on the Biosphere 2 closed ecological system experiment in Arizona. She was on the Board of Directors for Biosphere 2. As Biospherian Trainer she researched small group behaviour in extreme environments and conducted workshops in group dynamics, speech and movement for the eight men and women who lived sealed inside the structure for two years. She appears in the documentary Spaceship Earth, about its history. Gray helped build and worked with teams of the Research Vessel Heraclitus, a 25-meter

ferrocement Ferrocement or ferro-cement is a system of construction using reinforced mortar or plaster (lime or cement, sand, and water) applied over an "armature" of metal mesh, woven, expanded metal, or metal-fibers, and closely spaced thin steel rods ...

Chinese junk. Since 1975 its multicultural crew of explorers, researchers and artists have sailed the vessel over 270,000 miles, in every sea except the Arctic. She initiated a three-year expedition to study the changing port cultures of the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...

entitled ''Lives and Legends of the Mediterranean Sea''. Gray co-founded the October Gallery in 1978, a charitable trust centred on showing the multicultural an avant-garde in Bloomsbury, London. Gray was co-founder and artistic director of the Theater of All Possibilities from 1967 to 2009, which developed performances and strategies for long-duration interdisciplinary projects that, in some cases, spanned decades. It was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and toured for 18 years. In 2009, with John "Dolphin" Allen, she co-founded the performance research initiative THEATRRR (Theatre for the Reconstitution of Reality). She has produced and consulted on music and film. She produced ''Ornette: Made in America'' (1985), the documentary featuring musician and

Free Jazz Free jazz is an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians duri ...

pioneer Ornette Coleman, directed by

Shirley Clarke Shirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker. Life Born Shirley Brimberg in New York City, she was the daughter of a Polish-immigrant father who made his fortune in manufacturing. Her mother w ...

,Ornette Coleman film back in circulation thanks to Shirley Clarke project
/ref> She has collaborated with

William Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...

, Brion Gysin, Steina and Woody Vasulka,

Gustav Metzger Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London) was a German artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in ...

and

Godfrey Reggio Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1940) is an American director of experimental documentary films. Life Reggio was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to an old and distinguished Louisiana family descended from Francesco M. de Reggio, an Italian noblem ...

. Gray is a Fellow of the London Institute of

Pataphysics Pataphysics (french: 'pataphysique) is a " philosophy" of science invented by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) intended to be a parody of science. Difficult to be simply defined or pinned down, it has been described as the "science of im ...

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October GalleryInstitute of Ecotechnicsthe song "Kathelin Gray"www.kathelingray.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, Kathelin Living people American film producers American curators American women curators American women artists American women film producers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women