ION ISSUE#54

On our cover this month is Circlesquare. Currently a resident of Berlin by way of Vancouver, he made time for us while in town shooting a music video for his latest album Songs About Dancing and Drugs. He certainly knows about dancing. Circlesquare produces ethereal electronic soundscapes that are enjoyed on dancefloors around the world and he’s also been known to DJ the occasional ION party. As for drugs? Well he knows about that too. Not only an accomplished musician, Circlesquare lives a dual life as Jeremy Shaw, an extremely successful and subversive artist. One of his more noteworthy stunts involved drugging his friends with DMT, a powerful hallucinogen your brain releases when you’re born and when you die, then recording the results for an 8-monitor installation. This has been shown in major art centres around the world (he offers this tip if you’re wondering where you can purchase DMT from, “Drug dealers.”). 2009 is going to be a busy year for Circlesquare as he’ll be touring the eastcoast, Europe and Japan. On the gallery side of things, he’ll be taking part in a year-long public poster project for the Olympics which resurrects old imagery from Expo 86.

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Songs About Dancing And Drugs is out now and is reviewed on page 44 in this issue or here online.

www.songsaboutdancinganddrugs.com

Check out his latest video “Dancers” after the jump.

Circlesquare – Dancers from Bienvenido Cruz on Vimeo.