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Verdurin /vəʁdyrɛ̃/ is a project space in East London hosted by Pierre d’Alancaisez and programmed with friends.
Verdurin presents an idiosyncratic mix of events, courses, and exhibitions addressing urgent cultural, political, and philosophical questions through visual culture.
Verdurin is also a concept store providing the essentials an aesthete will need to survive cultural doomsday: daring literature, artefacts deserving of perdurance, and artisanal provisions.
d’Alancaisez was first inspired to marshal an audience to discuss politics, art, and ideas critically in response to the failure of institutions and the breakdown in the cultural order following the pandemic.
The name Verdurin is borrowed from Proust’s literary character Mme Verdurin who in À la recherche du temps perdu hosts a literary salon. Verdurin today carries on her spirit of conviviality and mutual edification.
We are happy to receive pitches and ideas for events, performances, book launches, screenings, talks relating to art, culture, politics, and philosophy.
Team
Pierre d’Alancaisez
Pierre d’Alancaisez is a curator and critic, and the founder of Verdurin.
Amir Naaman
Amir Naaman is a novelist and a personal trainer. He is involved in Verdurin publishing and events.
Daniel Neill
Daniel is a writer, and protégé at Verdurin.
Artists, contributors, guests
Bertie Marshall
Bertie Marshall is a writer and performer of plays, poems, and fiction.
Ester Freider
Ester Freider is a writer and ‘creative academic’.
Alexander Raubo
Alexander Raubo is a critic and philosopher writing about internet art, modernism, America, technology, and Christianity.
Rupert Read
Philosopher Rupert Read is Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project.
Noah Kumin
Noah Kumin is a writer and the founder of the Mars Review of Books.
Jack Hunter
Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology, and the paranormal.
Ann Snelgrove-McKerracher
Ann is a co-instructor at Theory Underground. She is interested in the question of the ‘Good Life’.
Jack Jacobs
Jack Jacobs is an actor and audiobook narrator.
Georg Kurz
Georg Kurz is a German politician associated with the Die Linke.
Quentin S. Crisp
Quentin S. Crisp is the author of Hamster Dam and many other novels and short story collections.
Rose Lyddon
Rose Lyddon writes about history, theology, and adventures.
Bryce Nance
Bryce Nance always wanted to go to college. Not for a degree or career, but to be “a man of letters”.
Elena Louisa Lange
Elena Lange is a philosopher, Japanologist, writer, former musician, and former assistant professor. She is the editor of Café Américain.
Fraser Myers
Fraser Myers is the deputy editor of Spiked magazine.
Yotam Feldman
Yotam Feldmam is a writer, filmmaker, and editor and a (self) trained metaphysical detective.
Stephen Adubato
Stephen Adubato is a writer and host of Cracks in Postmodernity.
Simon Fanshawe
Simon Fanshawe OBE is a broadcaster, writer, and activist. He was one of the founders of the LGBT charity Stonewall.
Aaron Moulton
Aaron Moulton is a curator and anthropologist. His research in ‘The Influencing Machine’ charted the impact of the NGO movement on the visual culture of Eastern Europe in the 1990s.
Dougal Verinder Gedge
Dougal Gedge’s practice reflects a reality experienced compulsively online.
Anna Sebastian
Anna Sebastian’s painting practice follows alternative and imagined realities, myth, history, and religion.
David Moulton
David Moulton is a writer and independent researcher.