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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
Ben Cobley
Ben Cobley is a writer and journalist.
Fraser Myers
Fraser Myers is the deputy editor of Spiked magazine.
Lee Jones
Lee Jones’ researches sovereignty, intervention, and state transformation and the ‘New Cold War’ between the US and China.
Daniel Corrick
Daniel Corrick is a literary historian specialising in the Decadent movement and evolution of supernatural fiction.
David McGrogan
David McGrogan is a legal scholar and writer interested in the sociology of human rights law and the legitimacy of the state.
J.F. Martel
J.F. Martel is a writer and lecturer on art, culture, and philosophy, and the the author of ‘Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice’.
Bryce Nance
Bryce Nance always wanted to go to college. Not for a degree or career, but to be “a man of letters”.
Stefano Parrella
Stefano Parrella is a London-based electronic musician and guitarist.
Anna Sebastian
Anna Sebastian’s painting practice follows alternative and imagined realities, myth, history, and religion.
Dr Jack Hunter
Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology, and the paranormal.
Blake Smith
Blake Smith is a historian and translator who lives in Chicago.
Malcom Kyeyune
Malcom Kyeyune is a writer living in Uppsala, Sweden.
Ran Heilbrunn
Ran Heilbrunn is a writer and scholar whose work focuses on technology, political theory, and current affairs.
Benjamin Studebaker
Benjamin Studebaker is a political theorist.
Yotam Feldman
Yotam Feldmam is a writer, filmmaker, and editor and a (self) trained metaphysical detective.
Abbie Lucas
Abbie Lucas is a filmmaker, theatre director, and co-host of Art of Darkness.
Noah Kumin
Noah Kumin is a writer and the founder of the Mars Review of Books.
Aimee Armstrong
Aimee Armstrong’s work portrays modern relationships in a post-internet, post-woke, post-infographic world.
Oliver Bennett
Oliver Bennett is a writer, actor, and director and co-founder of The Base Creates.
John-Robin Bold
John-Robin Bold is an artist and composer who works within the fields of experimental electronic music, internet art, and video art.
Jamieson Webster
Jamieson Webster is a writer and psychoanalyst, and a founding member of Das Unbehagen.