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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
Ofri Ilany
Dr. Ofri Ilany is a historian, journalist, and literary critic.
Stephen Adubato
Stephen Adubato is a writer and host of Cracks in Postmodernity.
Suzanne Newcombe
Suzanne Newcombe is a senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University and honorary director of Inform.
Alexander Raubo
Alexander Raubo is a critic and philosopher writing about internet art, modernism, America, technology, and Christianity.
Benjamin Studebaker
Benjamin Studebaker is a political theorist.
Kristin Milward
Kristin Milward is an actress known for her work on the stage.
Philip Cunliffe
Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor in International Relations at UCL, co-founder of Bungacast, and author of multiple books on international politics and security.
Aimee Armstrong
Aimee Armstrong’s work portrays modern relationships in a post-internet, post-woke, post-infographic world.
David McGrogan
David McGrogan is a legal scholar and writer interested in the sociology of human rights law and the legitimacy of the state.
Ester Freider
Ester Freider is a writer and ‘creative academic’.
Alexander Adams
Alexander Adams is an artist, critic, and poet.
Fraser Myers
Fraser Myers is the deputy editor of Spiked magazine.
Elena Louisa Lange
Elena Lange is a philosopher, Japanologist, writer, former musician, and former assistant professor. She is the editor of Café Américain.
Anna Sebastian
Anna Sebastian’s painting practice follows alternative and imagined realities, myth, history, and religion.
Nina Power
Nina Power is a philosopher and critic.
Nicholas Blincoe
Nicholas Blincoe is a novelist, screenwriter, and historian.
Olive Parker
Olive Parker writes stories about fuckboys, femcels, and sexual frustration.
Yotam Feldman
Yotam Feldmam is a writer, filmmaker, and editor and a (self) trained metaphysical detective.
Ann Snelgrove-McKerracher
Ann is a co-instructor at Theory Underground. She is interested in the question of the ‘Good Life’.
Tim Abrahams
Tim Abrahams is an architecture critic, publisher at Machine Books, and host of the Superurbanism podcast.
Rosie Kay
Rosie Kay is a dancer and choreographer who created MK ULTRA with the film-maker Adam Curtis.