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.
Daniel Neill
Daniel is a writer, and protégé at Verdurin.
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
Kit Ramsay
Kit Ramsay is a film and festival programmer, and perennial audience member on the scene.
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert is a novelist and literary scholar.
Jane Cooper
Jane Cooper researches the poetic theory of the sublime.
Daniel Hadas
Daniel Hadas specializes in early Christian literature, medieval Latin, and the study of manuscripts.
János Brückner
János Brückner is an artist working in installation, video, and painting.
Ben Cobley
Ben Cobley is a writer and journalist.
Ed McKeon
Ed is a music programmer who explores the aesthetic implications of shifts in understanding of history.
Tony D. Sampson
Tony D. Sampson examines the influence of intangible environments on our experiences.
Ronan McCrea
Ronan McCrea is the author of The End of the Gay Rights Revolution, an academic, and columnist.
George Hoare
George Hoare is a political theorist, podcaster, and author.
Glenn Belverio
Glenn Belverio is a video artist known for ‘Glennda and Friends’, a post-queer talk show.
Isobel McCrum
Isobel McCrum is an AI systems architect.
Alexander Raubo
Alexander Raubo is a critic and philosopher writing about internet art, modernism, America, technology, and Christianity.
Anna Sebastian
Anna Sebastian’s painting practice follows alternative and imagined realities, myth, history, and religion.
Alfie Bown
Alfie Bown is the editor of Sublation Magazine, founder of Everyday Analysis, and a lecturer in digital media.
Sam Jennings
Sam Jennings is an American writer in London.
Simon Fanshawe
Simon Fanshawe OBE is a broadcaster, writer, and activist. He was one of the founders of the LGBT charity Stonewall.
Aimee Armstrong
Aimee Armstrong’s work portrays modern relationships in a post-internet, post-woke, post-infographic world.
Victoria Comstock-Kershaw
Victoria Comstock-Kershaw is an arts journalist, reviewer, and God’s favourite critic.
Yotam Feldman
Yotam Feldmam is a writer, filmmaker, and editor and a (self) trained metaphysical detective.
Daniel Howard James
Daniel James is an independent researcher working on a conspiracy-free theory of ‘consumer-communism’.
