(Originally published in Kaleidoscope magazine) MARK FISHER: Maybe we could start off by talking about the role of popular culture in your work. Why the focus on popular culture? MARK LECKEY: Popular culture is just things that are immediate to me. When I was in college in the ’80s, I found everything too detached or ironic, and I didn’t want to make work like that; I couldn’t make work just out of critical disinterestedness. I decided that I should use as material my own history and ba...
