Kathelin Gray

Producer, Curator, Writer, Co-Founder of Theatre of All Possibilities; Institute of Ecotechnics; October Gallery, Biosphere 2, Caravan of Dreams Arts Center, R/V Heraclitus; and The Synergias. Gray is a fellow London Institute of Pataphysics (LIP).

She speaks internationally on the intersection of art, ecology and science.

She has worked collaboratively in founding Institute of Ecotechnics, UK and USA, Theater of All Possibilities, October Gallery, London, and other Ecotechnics-related projects including Biosphere 2, for which she served on the Board of Directors. With her biosphere colleagues, she has been active in the field of bioregenerative life systems for space and terrestrial applications.

Gray has consulted to Eden Project International, Cornwall, and to William Burroughs Communications.

Some recent essays include Building Biospheres in the Late Holocene, for the Belgian pavilion of the 2025 Venice Biennale, Embedded Entanglement: Eat and Be
Eaten for `Interspecies Futures: A Primer’ (2024, LAS, Berlin), and Enduring Mythology, (2024,
TRAPART BOOKS, Sweden).

Her book (with Ramuntcho Matta) on the transmission of generational wisdom is Hello Yes Hello (Moloko Editions, 2025). https://www.briongysin.com/hello-yes-hello-gysin-burroughs-book/

Year of Minutes is pending publication, 2026.

Gray is inspired by writer Alfred Jarry’s concept of pataphysics, ‘the science of imaginary solutions’,
in deploying art projects as experimental metaphysics for a society in crisis. She is a fellow of the
London Institute of Pataphysics.

 

She has produced and consulted on music and film. She produced Ornette: Made in America (1985), the documentary featuring musician and Free Jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, directed by Shirley Clarke,[1] Coleman composed a piece called “Kathelin Gray” that was released on his 1986 album “Song X”, co-led by Pat Metheny. She has collaborated with William BurroughsBrion GysinSteina and Woody VasulkaGustav Metzger and Godfrey Reggio.