Verdurin /vəʁdyrɛ̃/ is a cultural project 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.
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
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.
John Gillam
John Gillam is the founder of Thinking Class, an inquiry intothe political, cultural, and civilisational questions shaping England, Britain, and the West.
Sohrab Ahmari
Ahmari is the US editor of UnHerd and the author of Tyranny, Inc.
Bruce Benderson
Bruce Benderson is a writer and translator, best known for his novel User and memoir The Romanian.
Tony D. Sampson
Tony D. Sampson examines the influence of intangible environments on our experiences.
Neema Parvini
Neema Parvini is the author of ten books, including The Populist Delusion, The Prophets of Doom, and Applied Elite Theory. His YouTube channel, Academic Agent, has received over 37 million views.
Jo Bartosch
Jo Bartosch is a journalist and women’s rights campaigner.
Hamilton Morrin
Hamilton Morrin is a neuropsychiatrist researching brain-computer interface technology and human-AI interactions.
Isobel McCrum
Isobel McCrum is an AI systems architect.
Sam Riviere
Sam Riviere is a poet, novelist, and publisher at If a Leaf Falls Press.
Ronan McCrea
Ronan McCrea is the author of The End of the Gay Rights Revolution, an academic, and columnist.
Jack Hunter
Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology, and the paranormal.
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a philosopher of mind and metaphysics.
