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 and publisher, 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, 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.
Nina Power
Nina Power is a philosopher and critic.
Travis Jeppesen
Travis Jeppesen is the author of numerous books and the creator of object-oriented writing.
Emma Bielecki
Emma Bielecki is a lecturer, writer, and researcher. She splits her time between London and nineteenth-century Paris.
Lola Salem
Lola Salem is a researcher and cultural strategist.
Artists, contributors, guests
Dominic Green
Dominic Green is a historian, columnist, and critic.
David Roden
David Roden is a musician and writer of theory/fiction exploring dubious alternatives to our existence.
Douglas Davies
Douglas Davies is an anthropologist and theologian specialising in the history and social-scientific study of death.
Maya Pettersen
Maya Pettersen is a Vedic astrologer, writer, and esotericist.
Peter Rollins
Peter Rollins’s “Church of the Contradiction” exists at the intersection between philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, and liturgy.
Jacob Phillips
Jacob Phillips is a Catholic theologian and cultural commentator.
Nick Hostettler
Nick Hostettler is a lecturer in politics.
Kit Ramsay
Kit Ramsay is a film and festival programmer, and perennial audience member on the scene.
Jacob Siegel
Jacob Siegel is writer and a contributing editor at Tablet.
Alison Brady
Alison Brady is a philosopher of education investigating writing pedagogy in the age of AI.
Ben Sixsmith
Ben Sixsmith is a writer living in Upper Silesia and online editor of The Critic.
Liam Blackford
Liam Blackford is an Australian writer and poet.
Alex Hochuli
Alex Hochuli is a political analyst based in São Paulo.
William Daniels
William Daniels is an artist who creates images using found materials.
Edmund King
Edmund King is a writer and senior lecturer in English Literature at The Open University.
Kit Wilson
Kit Wilson is a writer and musician in London.
Angie Speaks
Angie Speaks is the author of Late Stage Babylon, host of Depth Diaries, and contributor to Newsweek and Spiked.
Carl Abrahamsson
Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author writing on occulture and magico-anthropology.
Adam Lehrer
Adam Lehrer is a writer, critic, artist, and the founder and editor of Safety Propaganda.
David Goodhart
David Goodhart is a journalist, author, and think tanker. He heads the demography unit at the Policy Exchange.
Harrison Pitt
Harrison Pitt is a writer, contributing editor at The European Conservative, and fellow at New Culture Forum.
