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INTERVIEW // sam kunkel on erik satie
“archival research is always an exercise in masochism.”
Feb 3 • mark iosifescu
INTERVIEW // drainolith
“yeah. ASSASSIN’S CREED: MONTRÉAL 1990. that would be my game.”
Nov 11, 2025 • mark iosifescu
INTERVIEW // MSHR
“The only practical approach was total, radical collaboration.”
Sep 2, 2025 • mark iosifescu
INTERVIEW // christian staebler + saga de xam pt. 3
“comics weren’t well regarded in art schools. talented artists still rejected them. even comics a͟u͟t͟h͟o͟r͟s despised them.”
Aug 12, 2025 • mark iosifescu
INTERVIEW // syko friend
“it’s like, they’re songs, but they’re still kind of fucked up.”
Jul 15, 2025 • mark iosifescu
INTERVIEW // v manuscript
“you know what’s cool about the homogenization of art after technological booms? freaks get freakier.”
May 27, 2025 • mark iosifescu
INTERVIEW // bela shayevich
“what makes me a loser is that the best thing I can say for myself is that my life is art.”
Jan 7, 2025 • mark iosifescu
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