ABOUT
Gillian Katungi is a musician & multidisciplinary artist.
Expressing as PAIX, she create records, performance & film, often in collaboration. PAIX has released 18 tracks (3 reaching BBCR 6 record of the week).
PAIX is collaborative and loves co-creating and facilitating. Alongside leading on their own projects, PAIX receives commissions and collaborates with national and international artists to make records, live performance, film and digital works. Amongst their latest successes are directing, composing, and performing music for; six short films and four records, including the award-winning film Ghost Island, by Lisandro Suriel.
PAIX is an Executive Director at Kinfolk Network
RECOGNITION
Co-wrote and performed on critically acclaimed album With Love, From Glasgow which mate the Top 10 on the UK and International Jazz Charts
2 BBC Radio 6 tracks of the week in 2021
1 BBC Radio Scotland track of the week 2024
RESIDENCIES
Sage Gateshead, Summer Studios, Residency, Newcastle, 2023
Working on arranging and rehearsing the tracks for my forthcoming album at the Summer Studios residency, 2023. Sage Gateshead residencies are for artists; musicians, bands, producers, rappers and singers. The programme gives time and support to artists to create new work, develop their sound, take part in a photoshoot, film a live session, receive mentoring from industry professionals via masterclasses and 1:1s.
Take Me Somewhere and La Serre Festival, Artist in residence, Glasgow & Montreal, Feb 2023
A twinned international residency between Take Me Somewhere in Glasgow and La Serre in Montreal. Alongside being provided the physical space and resources to develop my live performance practice and project. Each artist was allocated an artist ‘Host’ from their twinned city, who they met online to act as a creative sounding board, and introduce the artist to their local artistic community.
I worked on developing my live project - ‘We Thrive’ - a celebration of black scottish femme lives, supported by Stella Quines Theatre Co.
Body Remedy at Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Artist in Residence, Glasgow, July 2022
An independently led residency with no expectation of presentation and outcome. It is a space to rest, research, reflect and respond to the artist's own inquiry. I developed the film for my single, Hope Is A Weapon, ran rehearsals for my dancers and invited Movement Director, Mele Broomes to support them with choreography and movement for the visual ahead of filming. The tune was released in April 2022.
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in partnership with Buzzcut Festival — Artist in Residence, Glasgow, June 2021
With the residency I created a live performance around identity and belonging, rejection, and reclamation through diasporic experience. The performance, ‘Space: Liminal Being’ was a sensory experience bringing together and exploring live soundscape, movement, visual art, and theater, presented in 2021.
LIVE PERFORMANCE
RV Ensemble, Kelburn Festival, July 2023
PAIX - Body Remedy, Listening Session, CCA, June 2023
PAIX - Stella Quines Cast - Traverse Theatre, May 2023
BrownBear - Saint Lukes and The Winged Ox, Glasgow, April 2023
BrownBear - BBC Quay Live Sessions, Glasgow, March 2023
RV Ensemble - Ronnie Scotts, London, March 2023
RV Ensemble - We Out Here Festival, 2022
RV Ensemble - xJazz Festival, Berlin, April 2022
RV Ensemble - STEREO, Glasgow, 2022
PAIX - Rise UP Festival, Aberdeen, 2022
PAIX - Glasgow Jazz Festival, 2022
PAIX - Pop Mutations Festival, STEREO Glasgow, 2022
PAIX - Refugee Week Festival Paisley, 2022
PAIX - True North Festival, Aberdeen, 2021
PAIX - Up2 Standard Session, Glasgow, 2021
PAIX - Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow, 2021
PAIX - India Sky Embassy Exhibition, Edinburgh 2021
PAIX - Worldwide FM Live Session, Glasgow 2020
PAIX - Quarantine Cabaret, Virtual, 2020
PAIX - Tiny Changes, Live Virtual, 2020
PAIX - Tramway, GRIN, 2019
PAIX - Supporting NOVA, Blue Arrow Jazz club, Glasgow 2019
PAIX - Creative Entertainment Showcase, Glasgow, 2018