V & B (Alex Jacobs en Ellemieke Schoenmaker)

Artist
Rotterdam, Netherlands
website: www.vandb.info 

“All we wanted was to be able to try things and to make mistakes. And if it didn’t work out or if people didn’t like it it wouldn’t matter because Villeroy and Boch are already dead.”
-Villeroy & Boch [interview in the Reader's Digest]

Q&A: Alex Jacobs

What/who inspires you as an artist in the following categories:
Art/Design: Everyone and no one
Culinary: Topchef
Fashion: 80′s
Film: Rambo
Literature: Jack Vance
Music: Prince
Online: Google(images)
Photography: Images are very inspiring, photography itself I hate.
Television: The television as machine of infinite waves of nonsense imagery (commercial addiction) is a devil. Get rid of it!

Q&A: Ellemieke Schoenmaker

What/who inspires you as an artist in the following categories:

Art/Design: Guy Debord
Beauty: Tilda Swinton
Fashion: All thrift shops
Film: A Woman Under the influence
Literature: Rainer Maria Rilke
Music: Today, James Pants
Online: Too many
Photography: Francesca Woodman
Stage: Bertol Brecht
Television: No television